Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fourteen Nobel Prize winners will take part in Tercentenary Conferences on Arts and Sciences which will be held from August 31 to September 12. There will be 75 scholars from all over the world to form the most distinguished gathering of its kind ever held in the United States...
...recent attack on Mr. Baldwin's "thinking machine" by Elder Conservative Statesman & Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 24) was last week answered by Squire Baldwin with a blunt refusal to part with one iota of his prerogatives. But the Prime Minister did say he would appoint a Deputy to act for him the greater part of trie time as Chairman of the Council of Imperial Defense which will largely spend the Armament billions. Who this Deputy will be, Mr. Baldwin did not yet choose to tell the House...
Died. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, 86, world-renowned Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1904 and went on to lay the cornerstones for modern behavioristic psychology; of influenza; in Moscow. Since his efforts to weld mind & body into one delighted Russian Communists, they babied him, dutifully reported his characterization of them as "half-illiterate, rough handlers of science," gave him a beautiful laboratory, a $10,000 annuity, paraded him as often as possible to convince the world of their devotion to Science...
Retreat. At this stage the problem reached the midwinter convention of the A. A. A. S. at Atlantic City in 1932, which both Nobel Laureates attended. For a time the two seemed on the verge of noisy dispute (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933). Dr. Compton had found charged particles with energies of 30,000,000,000 volts, which could hardly be secondary rays dislodged from the air. Dr. Millikan said that anyone recording voltages over a billion must have muffed the technique...
...screen, he showed that this was true. This "Compton effect" went far to explain photo-electricity and to make the old idea of a light-conducting ether, already in disrepute, even more unnecessary since light as bullets could travel indefinitely through empty space. The "Compton effect" won him a Nobel prize for physics...