Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every molecule of pure "heavy water" contains hydrogen of the doubleweight kind identified by Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey in 1931. Long before Dr. Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery (TIME, Nov. 26), experimenters were finding that heavy water did strange things to small animals and plants. It killed guppies, tadpoles, flatworms, prevented tobacco seeds from sprouting, dimmed the light of luminous bacteria, made mice appear tipsy and terribly thirsty. Then Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons guessed that a slow, steady increase in the amount of heavy...
...want Nazi authority, as good Catholics want the authority of Rome, good Communists, the authority of Moscow. Even testy old Admiral von Levetzow, hard-boiled Nazi chief of Berlin police, beamed and bubbled with good humor last week. He decreed that Stresemannstrasse, named after Germany's late, great Nobel Peace Prize winning Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), should be renamed Saarlandestrasse. Since beauteous Widow Stresemann, once the "Queen Kathe" of swank Berlin night clubs, happens to be a Jewess, Admiral von Levetzow was congratulated last week on having winged two birds with one pellet...
...Pierre Laval prepared to board his train for Paris most observers agreed that he and Benito Mussolini had made each other prime candidates for the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize-even if squalling Abyssinia is incidentally butchered...
BETTER THINK TWICE ABOUT IT-Luigi Pirandello-Dutton ($3). Thirteen short stories by the 1934 Nobel Prizewinner...
...Science and associated groups who met last week in Pittsburgh. They read and discussed 1,200 papers on subjects ranging from the folklore of Schoharie County, N. Y., to sarcomatous changes in mammary adenomas. Many an industrial and academic research laboratory had exhibits. Harold Clayton Urey, newest U. S. Nobel Laureate, was there. When the apparatus for making heavy water broke down he fixed it. Nobelman Robert Andrews Millikan was 'there to talk about cosmic rays, show the latest apparatus for research in artificial radioactivity. On hand was many another bigwig. But the name on everyone's tongue...