Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir and X-ray Expert William David Coolidge of General Electric Co. received $16.000 and $21,500 respectively. General Motors' celebrated Charles Franklin ("Boss") Kettering, acknowledged father of the automobile self-starter, did not figure in the investigation because he, curiously enough, has received no star for distinguished research...
Nearly the whole world last week undertook to pass judgment in one form or another on Britain's Prime Minister. That Neville Chamberlain will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was taken for granted by the Norwegian press. The influential Aftenposten went on to urge that, without waiting for the next scheduled date for the Nobel award-December 10, anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel-the committee should "immediately" give Mr. Chamberlain the prize (about $40.000). Norwegian joy at the peace was such that all Oslo school children were given a holiday...
Every Norwegian recalled that the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize went to half-brother Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles G. Dawes for their part in paving the way for the Pact of Locarno. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, as he then was, received from King George V a much rarer honor than elevation to the peerage, knighthood in the Order of the Garter, and in British circles this week Mr. Neville Chamberlain was slated to receive equal honors at the hands of King George VI. Birmingham University was at once presented last week with a $50.000 scholarship fund, donated by Midland Publisher...
Second director was furry-visaged John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, who discovered the "noble" gases (Argon, Helium, etc.) and made the most accurate contemporary determinations of the ohm and the ampere. He got a Nobel Prize 20 years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters...
...study of X-ray diffraction. They not only measured the wave lengths of X-rays (thousands of times shorter than those of visible light) but also penetrated the secrets of atomic architecture in crystalline substances. For these achievements William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize...