Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GALS-WORTHY-H. V. Marrot-Scrlbner-($5). Galsworthy's good friend and great admirer presents an exhaustive study of the life and writings of the late Nobel Prizewinner. Over 800 pages, complete with family trees and photographs. A handy reference for Forsyte-followers...
Cream separators are centrifuges. To bacteriologists who use more delicate centrifuges to whirl germs out of solutions, the name Svedberg is as familiar as the name De Laval is to dairymen. Lately at Sweden's University of Upsala, shy, black-eyed, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Theodor Svedberg, 50, perfected two new rotors in which at normal operating speed a dime would press against the wall with a force of half a ton. One rotor he kept. The other he sent to the du Pont research laboratories at Wilmington, Del. There last week Dr. Elmer Otto Kraemer put the machine through...
Students from far & wide flock to Rochester's School of Medicine & Dentistry, headed by Nobel-Prizewinning Pathologist George Hoyt Whipple, and to Rochester's Eastman School of Music, whose Director is Composer Howard Hanson (Merry Mount). But of the College's 1,100 students, 75% come from within 50 mi. of Rochester, N. Y. More than half are day students who leave their starkly handsome Genesee River campus at 4 p. m. like factory hands at the end of a day's shift. Alumni have groused about the absence of "college spirit," the lacklustre...
...chief of the Public Ledger-New York Evening Post bureau in Berlin, where her liberal tendencies later ran afoul of the Nazi movement (TIME, Sept. 3, 1934). With this job the first stage of Dorothy Thompson's journalistic career was complete. In 1928 she was ready to marry Nobel-Prizewinning Novelist Sinclair Lewis...
Heading the list of Nobel winners will be Albert Einstein who will discuss some aspects of physics. The others are Neils Bohr, physics; Hans Fischer, chemistry; Arthur H. Compton, physics; Sir Frederick G. Hopkins, physiology and medicine; Robert A. Millikan, physics; Friedrich Bergius, chemistry; August Krogh, physiology and medicine; Theodore Svedberg, chemistry; Otto Warburg, physiology and medicine; Karl Landsteiner, physiology and medicine; Edgar D. Adrian, physiology and medicine; Werner Heisenberg, physics; and Hans Spemann, physiology and medicine...