Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable for an insane kind of poise which she maintained even when the cook got drunk and had to be locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family for three dollars to pay her bookmaker. Papa Pemberton (Etienne Girardot) might have received the Nobel Prize for breaking down the atom if Junior had not objected that the award would overshadow his fame as a child prodigy...
...Sweden, Nobel Laureate The Svedberg had designed an ultracentrifuge - a machine which separates heavy molecules from light ones, inferentially measuring their molecular weights, by whirling them at enormous speeds. In this ultracentrifuge the molecular weight of the Stanley crystals was found to be about 17,000,000 units (17,000,000 times as heavy as a hydrogen atom...
...professor of Pedriatrics; John Homans '99, Clinical Professor of Surgery; Chester S. Keefer, associate professor of Medicine; William G. Lennox, assistant professor of Neurology; Charles C. Lund '16, assistant professor of Surgery; James H. Means '07, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine; George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine and Nobel Laureate in Medicine in 1934; William C. Quinby '98, clinical professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery; Francis M. Rackemann '08, associate in Medicine; George C. Shattuck '01, associate professor of Tropical Medicine; Richard M. Smith, assistant professor of Pedriatrics and Child Hygiene; Harold C. Stuart, assistant professor of Pedriatrics and Child...
...Stockholm last week a committee of Swedish doctors was deciding whether to give the 1937 Nobel Prize ($40,000) for Medicine to: 1) Biochemist Ibert Szent-Györgyi of the Hungarian University of Szeged who discovered that a certain acid (ascorbic) in the adrenal glands of healthy men and animals had the same beneficial effect as Vitamin C contained in oranges and lemons; 2) Biochemist Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham (England) University, who analyzed the chemical structures of Vitamin C and the ascorbic acid which Professor Szent-Györgyi isolated; or 3) Biochemist Paul Karrer of the University...
While the world of scholars waited, the Nobel Prize committee took a quick last look at the accomplishments of Albert Szent-Györgyi. Amiable son of a once wealthy Hungarian, son-in-law of a one-time Hungarian postmaster general, as thoroughly Hungarian as paprika, this Wartime Hungarian army medical officer started, after the Armistice, to learn what happens to food in the human body. He was particularly interested in the progress of carbohydrates (starches and sugars). These enter the mouth, change into a variety of transient substances, nourish every cell in the body, leave the body with...