Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years after Hitler came to power, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann, greatest of exiled German writers, evaded questioners who pressed him for his opinion of fascism in Germany. When he visited the U. S. in 1934 and 1935-the first time to be honored on his 5gth birthday, the second to receive an honorary degree from Harvard-he maintained a controlled silence about politics that was exceptional among literary exiles,,extraordinary in view of the anti-Nazi activities of his brother Heinrich, his son Klaus and daughter Erika. Sometimes he said he kept silent to protect his German readers. Sometimes...
...where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill. In the line of special busses waiting at the Durham station was a regular bus whose route missed the university by half a mile. Some 25 scientists, including General Electric Co.'s Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir, heedlessly climbed aboard this bus, were driven...
...artificial fevers by means of electricity or hot air, has the art of fever therapy matured. Impulse to this development was the success which Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna had in curing paretic Austrian soldiers by means of inoculations of malaria germs. For this he received a Nobel Prize in 1927. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg is supposed to have caught the idea of malaria therapy from an Odessan named Rozenblum. Yet U. S. slave owners used to send their syphilitics to malarial swamps where, for some then unknown reason, malaria made them better...
...Karl Landsteiner, 68, discoverer of blood groupings, Nobel laureate and member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, went to court in Manhattan for an injunction to keep his name out of a new edition of Who's Who in American Jewry. Explained Dr. Landsteiner, a Catholic convert: "Among peoples of the earth [there is] prejudice against Jews and Judaism. ... It will be detrimental to me to emphasize publicly the religion of my ancestors; first, as a matter of convenience and secondly, I want nothing that may in the slightest degree cause any mental anguish, pain or suffering...
...Urey is one of the leading authorities in the field of chemistry. His discovery of heavy water three years ago created a sensation in the scientific world, and for this research he received in 1984 the Nobel prize in chemistry...