Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the delicate linings of the nose are influenced by sex hormones is a theory well-known to biologists. Four years ago Biochemist Hector Mortimer of Montreal's McGill University and his colleagues, Dr. Robert Percy Wright and Nobel Prize-sharer James Bertram Collip, one of the discoverers of insulin, decided to put the theory to practical use. They dropped small amounts of female sex hormone estrogen into the noses of patients who suffered from atrophic rhinitis (withering of the nasal mucous membranes). Many patients recovered. But they were amazed when one woman announced that a ringing...
Johannes Stark is a crusty old "Aryan" German, whose researches in physics were good enough to win him a Nobel Prize (1919). For a long time he has whooped up the merits of hardheaded experiment as against those of dreamy theory. Last spring, in the British journal Nature, he succeeded in getting published a manifesto entitled "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics" (TIME, May 23). In this he declared that the Jews-e. g., Einstein-have always tended to be theorists and dogmatists in science, that their influence is evil. The editors of 'Nature pooh-poohed this...
...manifesto of U. S. science, made public last week, was signed by 1,284 scientists, including three Nobel Laureates (Millikan of Caltech, Urey of Columbia, Langmuir of General Electric). 64 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 85 college presidents, deans, directors of industrial laboratories and experiment stations. It declared...
Acting as spokesman for the committee of eminent scientists, including three Nobel Prize winners, Franz Boas, professor of Anthropology, emeritus, at Columbia, said the manifesto was based on a resolution of the American Association for the Advancement of Science which stated that science was wholly independent of national boundaries, and "races and creeds can flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom...
Arthur H. Compton, of the University of Chicago and Nobel prize winner in a telegram to the committee called the plan "the most effective possible demonstration of American's will that freedom and justice shall be the right...