Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented Nobel Novelist Sinclair Lewis: "There is no longer any way for the Duke of Windsor to make himself useful to the world...
...late, great Jane Addams shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with the eminent Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Moreover, Theodore Roosevelt once called her "America's most useful citizen." But down to the end of her long life in 1935 Jane Addams was never so proud of anything as she was of Hull House, the lively, sprawling Chicago settlement which she founded in 1889, where she worked until her death. When Miss Addams, an erect, brown-haired young lady of 29, first appeared with her equally lady-like friend, Ellen Gates Starr, in the big red-brick house that Lawyer...
...technique requires an electrical gadget whose invention may bring Dr. Burr a Nobel Prize. In a box small enough to be carried around are four different kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...
...newly created council, authorized by law, will guide the course of the National Cancer Institute at Rethesda, Maryland. Serving with five other prominent scientists among whom is Dr. Arthur H. Campton, Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago, President Conant will have as duties the consideration of regulations to govern the granting of aid to cancer control projects, and the creating of fellowships...
Overgrown Atoms. Headliner of the convention was a round-faced, gum-chewing professor of Columbia University, Harold Clayton Urey, who won a Nobel Prize in 1934 for his spectrographic identification of deuterium, the doubleweight hydrogen atom which in combination with oxygen makes heavy water...