Word: nobeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobel Prizewinner Martin du Card asked scornfully: "The Academy? What's that...
President Conant will be the principal speaker at the inauguration this Friday of 1927 Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton, one of the leading physicists in atomic bomb research, as the ninth chancellor of Washington University. Also expected to attend the installation, which falls on the ninety-third anniversary of the founding of the university, are brothers Karl and Wilson Compton...
...German Nobel Prizewinners Otto Hahn (TIME, Jan. 21) and Werner Heisenberg said that Germany knew the secret of harnessing atomic energy in 1941. Said Heisenberg: "We were unable to apply it because of shortages of manpower and material. ... In June, 1942, we made a report on our progress to Speer [Albert Speer, Nazi munitions boss now on trial at Nürnberg]. At the same time American atom scientists made a similar report in the U.S. Then followed the great difference -America was able to start building the necessary factories. . . . Germany could not even begin work...
...November Dr. Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize for his researches in atomic physics. He heard about it, he wrote his wife in Germany, from a radio broadcast. To the Nobel Prize Committee he expressed his gratitude and his regret that he could not set a date to receive the prize because of "certain circumstances...
Gabriela Mistral, handsome, 56-year-old Chilean poetess (Los Sonetos de la Muerte), found herself still the lioness of social Stockholm a fortnight after receiving the Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 26) from towering King Gustaf. Poetess Mistral found Sweden's social democracy "a century ahead of everything else," but prepared to move on to another, gentler climate. Last a resident of Brazil's fair-&-warmer Petropolis, she would now head for California's Los Angeles, hopes to find a home, an office, and settle down...