Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time their daughter Irene was in swaddling clothes. Eight years later bearded, brooding Pierre Curie was killed by a truck. Now Mme Curie, twice a Nobel Prizewinner, devotes her time to managing the Institut du Radium's Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris. The old wooden building where she once worked is gone. But in one of the Institute's new buildings on the same street Irene, with her brilliant husband Jean Frédéric Joliot, continues to pry into matter's secrets in much...
...years later he married Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of Harvard's Nobel Prize Chemist Theodore William Richards. Handsome and talented, she has lately persuaded her husband to do a little painting. He likes to motor over Europe, hike in the White Mountains, swim on Cape Cod. But chemistry was his real play. That gone, he is temporarily lost for diversion. To friends who asked why he gave up a great career in chemistry to become Harvard's head he replied: "I guess it's my sense of adventure." His mother thinks the same qualities which made...
However laudable the principle, unglossed is the harsh fact that this University, the avowed intention of which is to procure men of the highest calibre for our faculty, has birked the opportunity to secure any of the best thirty-one of twelve hundred German scholars, among them Nobel prize winners. This group of men was probably of the type named "creative scholars," of whom the University is by its own tacit admission so much in need...
...Soviet reader were asked to name his favorite U. S. author he would probably say John Dos Passes. If the same question were put to a Swede, the first name off his tongue would doubtless be that Nobel Prizeman Sinclair Lewis. But such a loyal Swede would have in mind Author Lewis' earlier, better books (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry). With such a second-rate novel as Work of Art following hard on the heels of his mediocre Ann Vickers (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), readers of any nationality can see with half an eye that Sinclair Lewis is slipping...
...Soviet propaganda. It aims to show the miseries of the proletariat under Soviet rule, to make a case for the survivors of the Tsarist aristocracy. Its hero, Ivan Ilich Borodin, scientific director of the Institute of Physiological Stimuli, is patently patterned after Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904. At first Fear was banned by Soviet authorities as counterrevolutionary. Later its production was permitted as part of the U. S. S. R.'s self-criticism plan. Last week it received its first performance in the U. S., not on Broadway, where producers...