Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded. To Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and onetime publisher; and Carlos Saavedra Lamas. Argentine Foreign Minister: Nobel Peace Prizes for 1935 and 1936; in Oslo, Norway. Ailing in a Berlin hospital after spending three years in Nazi concentration camps, von Ossietzky declined to comment on his award, which infuriated Adolf Hitler...
Died. Priscilla Murphy, 16, Brookline (Mass.) high-school student and aviatrix, daughter of Dr. William Parry Murphy, co-winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Medicine; of injuries received in an airplane crash; in Navarino...
Last week the Swedish Royal Academy of Science awarded its 1936 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to a profound student of molecular structure, Professor Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye, 52, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. The Prize for Physics was divided between a pioneer cosmic ray researcher, Professor Victor Franz Hess, 53, of Austria's Innsbruck University, and 31-year-old Professor Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, discoverer of a fundamental particle of matter, the positive electron. Prizeman Debye will receive about $40,000, Prizemen Anderson & Hess each half that...
Forecaster Dirac won a Nobel Prize in 1933. Positrons have now been produced at the rate of 30,000 per second by gamma rays, and the Curie-Joliots of Paris observed them shooting out of light-weight elements in their first experiments with artificial radioactivity. It has even been suggested, despite their brief lives in the laboratory, that positrons may be a component of the primary cosmic rays...
Robert Andrews Millikan, who measured the electric charge of the negative electron, won a Nobel Prize in 1923. Visibly moved was grey-haired Dr. Millikan last week when he heard that his young co-worker was to join him in the highest honor that Science can bestow. Asked by newshawks to say something about his "outside interests," Nobelist Anderson grinned: "In my younger school days my ambition was to become a track star, a high jumper. But it didn't work, and now my hobby is tennis. I just couldn't jump high enough...