Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong professorial voice raised last week against the New Deal and its professorial sponsors was that of Robert Andrews Millikan, head of California Institute of Technology. At Oberlin's centennial commencement this Nobel prize winner extolled the Machine as the producer of wealth and leisure, flayed government paternalism for "weakening American self-reliance, discouraging private initiative, diminishing opportunity, stimulating bonus marchers and veterans' rackets." Warning against dictatorship Dr. Millikan cried...
...said, "and the kind of woman I'd marry wouldn't live in Ohio. If she did, I wouldn't marry her." He has an intense affection for New England and for Harvard. The girl he was going to marry was the daughter of Professor Richards of Harvard, a Nobel Prize-winner in chemistry. Or that's the girl he did marry, at any rate...
...German-Jewish winners of Nobel Prizes were without jobs last week. Both are full of years and distinction. Dr. James Franck, 51, was a professor at Gottingen University. He won his Prize in 1925, for experimental physics. Professor Fritz Haber, 64, was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical & Electrical Chemistry in Berlin. He invented the important synthesis of atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia which supplied Germany with explosives and fertilizers during the War. Like Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein, Laureates Haber and Franck resigned their German jobs to avoid Adolf Hitler's white pogrom...
...Germany the Jewish savant now has no chance at all to earn a living. Aryan scientists made that plain last week when the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences held its annual meeting. To Chancellor Hitler, Physicist Max Planck, the Society's president and a Nobel Laureate, sent this salute: "The Society begs leave to tender reverential greetings to the Chancellor and its solemn pledge that German science is also ready to cooperate joyously in the reconstruction of the new National State...
Motoring to lecture at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, la.) Dr. Arthur Holley Compton, co-winner of the Nobel prize in physics for 1927 (cosmic rays), skidded on the wet pavement of the Lincoln Highway, crashed into another car, demolished his own, escaped serious injury. Hospitalized were his two companions of last summer's cosmic ray junket to the Andes (TIME, March 28): his wife, with cuts about the body and head, a nail through her left hand, and their son Arthur Alan, with a lacerated scalp...