Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already in production, more on the production line. Under way are Young Mr. Lincoln, Stanley and Livingstone, Beethoven, Man of Conquest (Sam Houston), Man in the Iron Mask, Juarez, Brigham Young, Knute Rockne. Promised for next season are Mme Curie, Thomas Edison, Rudolph Valentino, Steinmetz, Lillian Russell, Simon Bolivar, Nobel. Last week the first spring shoot of this bumper crop appeared on U. S. screens. The biggest job to date of Hollywood's sole socialite director, Henry Codman ("Hank") Potter, it is a $1,500,000 close-up of Irene and Vernon Castle, produced by RKO Radio...
...writing The Thibaults, taciturn, 58-year-old Roger Martin du Card, then almost unknown, won the 1937 Nobel surprise. With this much of his masterwork before them, U. S. readers may well feel that the award was justified...
Schack August Steenberg Krogh won a Nobel Prize in 1920 for his studies on the mechanism of blood supply to muscles, showing that a muscle's capillaries work in squads or shifts, most of them remaining closed when the muscle is resting. His great work on respiration, published in 1916, was on the mechanism of gas exchange (carbon dioxide for oxygen) in lungs. Last week he pointed out that animals make structural adaptations to the available oxygen supply as to any other environmental circumstance. Frogs and toads living in oxygen-deficient waters grow abnormally large, those in oxygen-abundant...
...Institute's income barely supports it. Dr. Plotz, who proved that measles is a virus disease, is now working on a measles serum, recently developed a new modern type of smallpox vaccination. He works in the laboratory of the late famed Biologist Elie Metchnikoff, who received a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on immunity. > Professor Gaston Ramon, square-built, square-bearded son of a farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses at the Institute's annex in Garches. He makes tremendous quantities of serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus and other dread diseases. These serums...
...radiologist and his previous record includes discovery of several radioactive elements. Some years ago he lectured at Cornell, is remembered there as an "outstanding scientist"-also as a good lecturer, an amiable and energetic man. Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom cracked. Some credit also...