Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month Baltimore's Evening Sun delivered a fatherly lecture to Johns Hopkins University. The Hopkins had lately lost (mainly to richer institutions) many eminent men: Nobel Prize Physicist James Franck (to University of Chicago...
...follow an illustrious father is to set out with two strikes against you, but Wells Lewis '39, son of Nobel prize-winner Sinclair Lewis, has taken a lusty swing with the recent publication of his first novel, "They Still...
...Karl Landsteiner, 70. Nervous, Austrian-born Dr. Landsteiner won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discovering that there are four main types of human blood with at least 30 subtypes. As a result of his discovery, blood transfusion ha become a safe operation. His blood tests showed that anthropoid apes and human beings are more closely related than anthropoid apes and monkeys, or monkeys and men. More recently he has been working on the chemistry of body immunity. He has thrown light on the relationship of toxins and similar substances to the antibodies they provoke...
...Alexis Carrel, 65. Most famed of the five, bald, poetic Dr. Carrel won the 1912 Nobel Prize for his remarkable success in suturing blood vessels and transplanting organs. For 27 years he has kept a scrap of chicken heart alive and growing. Every few days the heart has to be trimmed, for it spreads so rapidly that if left alone it would fill the laboratory in a year. At present Dr. Carrel is continuing experiments with Colleague Charles Augustus Lindbergh on the "perfusion pump" (TIME, June 13), which keeps other disembodied organs alive outside the parent body for indefinite periods...
...greatest of American international lawyers. He was Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt, United States Senator from New York 1909-15, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague from 1910 until his death, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1910-25, Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1912, and diplomatic representative of the United States in many capacities...