Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physicist Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, 1936 Nobel Prizeman. . . . . . Sc.D...
...Cuban Government, which had nominated him for the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize, Franklin Roosevelt sent a modest request that his nomination be withdrawn, suggested that Secretary of State Cordell Hull was more deserving of it. Since Mr. Hull, with equal modesty, had already told the Cubans that he thought the President deserved the Prize, eight Latin American republics who were preparing to line up for a costless compliment to their big Good Neighbor were left in a quandary...
...London. Conn.. Nobel Prizeman Sinclair Lewis revealed: "When I don't like what I've started to write I unroll the entire sheet and put in a fresh one. I don't think it's a good practice to tear a partly written sheet out of a typewriter...
...Pittsburgh last week Andrew William Mellon—with the help of three Nobel Prize winners, 200 chemists, physicists and engineers most of whom hope to become factory executives, and some 1,500 bystanders-dedicated a project which he conceived when he tried to improve his French 28 years ago. His French, he told the throng last week, "is still what it was originally." But his conception has become a huge, new, nine-story, splendidly equipped factory for research...
Scarcely did the Harvard men announce this news to the American Physical Society in Washington than from Pasadena came word that Dr. Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, Nobel Prize-winning discoverer of the positron, had independently discovered the new entity in his laboratory...