Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fastest passenger planes. To California William Randolph Hearst brings Old World treasures by the carload; at his San Simeon estate third-rate cinemactors sleep in Cardinal Richelieu's ornate bed. In California lunch rooms are built like igloos, puppies, derby hats. At California Institute of Technology work Nobel Prize-winning Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and Physicist Robert Millikan. California has more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare...
...Publisher Sinclair now keeps an active list of 42 of his books, tracts, plays. He is often called the best selling U. S. author in Europe. The U. S. S. R. alone has bought some 3,000,000 copies of Sinclairiana. Indeed, Upton Sinclair still believes that a befuddled Nobel Prize Committee had him in mind when it gave the 1930 literature award to onetime Furnaceman Sinclair Lewis...
...published in the midst of the War (1916), the Unitary Field Theory 13 years later. Though only twelve men in the world are popularly supposed to understand Einstein's theory, the world now regards him as the successor of Galileo and Newton. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics...
...field of modern Italian literature the exhibit contains some of the poems of Adolfo Bosis, the young Italian flier who lost his life when flying over Rome in order to drop anti-Fascisti pamphlets on the city. There is also a collection of the poems of Ada Negri, Nobel Prize winner, one of the poets to gain praise from Mussolini...
...chromosomes, "linkage groups" (tendency of certain characteristics to be transmitted in groups), and "crossing over'' (interchange of genes between male and female chromosomes). For his laboratory animal Dr. Morgan used hardy, quick-breeding Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly. His reward was the Nobel Prize (TIME...