Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler exploded indignantly when Carl von Ossietzky, famed German pacifist, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize while still a prisoner of the Third Reich (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). The decision of the awarders was reviled as "an insult to the German people." Nazis were forbidden thereafter to accept a Nobel Prize, were told that in future the Government would award similar prizes for Germans only...
Died. Guglielmo Marconi, 67, Italian-Irish inventor of wireless communication, Nobel Prizewinner (1909), Italian marquese and senator, president of the Royal Academy of Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome. His current inventions were for short-wave focused radio beams; his last public service, the Pope's earth-circling short-wave broadcasting station...
...living Nobel Prize-winner in the sciences...
Argentina for 50 years has been the leader of Latin-American efforts to have done with the Monroe Doctrine. Therefore this week 400 banquet guests in Buenos Aires audibly rustled and gasped with surprise as Argentine Foreign Minister Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, recent Nobel Peace Prizeman (TIME, Nov. 30), not only praised the Monroe Doctrine but went on to deliver what cables soon called "the most laudatory speech made about the United States in any Latin-American country in the last generation...
...some uranium salts lying in the dark near a photographic plate. When he developed the plate he found that some sort of rays from the uranium, passing through a metal container and several other obstacles, had left an image on the plate. Thus by accident Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize with Pierre and Marie Curie, discovered radioactivity...