Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your perfectly splendid report of the bestowing of the Nobel Prize upon Drs. Whipple, Minot & Murphy (TIME, Nov. 5) you referred to the efficacy of apricots, peaches, and prunes in red cell restoration without indicating that it was with dried fruits that Dr. Whipple worked. I call this to your attention, knowing the widespread circulation of TIME and the multitude of cover-to-cover readers who might get the idea that fresh or canned apricots, peaches, and prunes might be just as effective as the dried fruits...
...University's campus a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building. Dr. Urey suggested the bird be taken out of the city and freed in the woods. He was in a jovial mood. Word had just arrived from Stockholm that he had been awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
...qualify for the Nobel prize a writer needs an international reputation, a large body of work and a grey frost of years. It also helps if his country has not received an award for some time, because the Academicians at Stockholm like to strike a delicate balance between diplomacy and recognition of literary merit. Once it decided that Italy was due for an award, the Nobel Prize Committee was of necessity limited in its choice to four men: Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, Estheticist Benedetto Croce, Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, Playwright Pirandello. Drama lovers the world over were highly pleased...
...Nobel Prize came at a happy moment for Luigi Pirandello. Last spring he did the libretto for an opera called The Legend of the Changeling Son which was loudly booed at its Roman premiere. Benito Mussolini had it recalled for "moral incongruity" while the well-trained Italian Press chorused "un-Fascist...
...Swiss extraction who is indisputably one of the few great mathematical logicians in the world. His Principles oj Quantum Mechanics is a monument of human cerebration. That book is utterly incomprehensible to ordinary men who had never heard of its author until Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac won a Nobel Prize last year. Only a few of the ablest scholar-scientists can follow the chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like...