Word: nobelity
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...expanding universe" theory which views the present universe as shrapnel of one atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost Belgium's prestige. Donor of the award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. ¶Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A telegram to Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir a job writing scripts for Pearl White. Ruth Roland, et al. With Catherine McNelis...
...William Richards Medal, awarded biennially by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society for "outstanding eminence in the field of pure chemistry." The award is particularly appropriate, because Professor Baxter's work has been in the field in which the late Professor Richards distinguished himself and won the Nobel Prize...
According to Nobel Laureate Millikan "technological unemployment'' was a bugaboo easily driven to cover by census figures: in 1880 34% of the U. S. population was gainfully employed, while after 50 years of sweeping technological advance, 40% of the population was gainfully employed. Critics who accused Science of making war horrible were facing the wrong way: Science had made war so horrible that in the future nations would recoil from it as if from suicide...
...WELL OF DAYS-Ivan Bunin- Knopf ($2.50). Three months ago few U. S. readers had ever heard of Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin. Now, by grace of his recently-won Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 20), the U. S. public is aware of his name if not of his books. To take advantage of his sudden fame, Publisher Knopf rushed two Bunin reprints (The Gentleman from San Francisco, The Village) through the press, last fortnight brought out his latest (translated) novel, The Well of Days. Readers of this grave, sensitive but unmodern autobiographical novel may now see what Author Bunin is about, will...
Died. Fritz Haber, 65, Germany's foremost Wartime chemist, 1919 Nobel prizewinner, inventor of a process for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and of several poison gases, co-inventor of the Haber-Bosch synthetic ammonia process; in Basle, Switzerland...