Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students. Chemistry is his whole life. Yet he is no absent-minded professor: decade ago he leaped into the Charles River to save a would-be suicide. His wife, mother of his two children, is Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of the late Chemist Theodore W. Richards who won a Nobel Prize in 1916. The Conants live hard by the Harvard Chemical Laboratories. In an alumni record Dr. Conant used up one-third of his brief space by writing: "The present academic year (1928-29) has been one of good fortune for all the members of the Harvard chemistry department since...
...difficult to find in the younger English writers the sort of intense seriousness and vitality that is in the younger American authors. Writers like Dos Passes, Hemingway, Faulkner, are for the first time being accepted seriously in Europe as well as in America. It was Sinclair Lewis," winning the Nobel prize that gave Europe its first appreciation of the fact that Americans had something to say. Men like William March, Halper, Thomas Wolf, Claire Spencer, the author of an astounding novel, "Gallows Orchard," and a dozen others are making a literary future for America. The years of experimenting with form...
...serene Gottingen the university faculty last week talked pridefully concerning knowledge and its fruits, pointed particularly at sage Professor Adolf Windaus and two of his scholastic offshoots. Professor Windaus, 1928 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was first man to crystallize a vitamin-Vitamin D, in 1931. The same year one of his former pupils, Dr. Ottar Rygh, announced that he had crystallized Vitamin C, the anti-scurvy ingredient of food. Last week another Windaus student, young Dr. Fritz Micheel, who has become a Gottingen professor, reported that he had analyzed the chemical nature of Vitamin C. The three items, reinforced with...
...Karl Kislig (syphilologist) and Edwin C. Sittler (one of Mr. Kettering's men). Paul de Kruif. writing bacteriologist, originally gave them the idea of using the radiotherm to treat syphilis. He thought the precisely regulated fevers it generates would be better than the malaria-induced fevers used by Nobel Laureate J. Wagner Jauregg...
Caltech's Dr. Paul Sophus Epstein, mathematical physicist, patted the proud heads of both great scholars last week, much as his whimsical friend Dr. Albert Einstein, who still was in Pasadena, might have done. Nobel Laureates Millikan & Compton are both correct in their theories, testified Dr. Epstein. Of cosmic rays which reach earth's atmosphere. 30% are Compton electrons (or protons) and tend to congregate around the magnetic poles. The remaining 70% are Millikan photons, darting right through the air to land...