Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine (worth $42,000) was awarded last week to a man who is no physician but a chemist, a man who had never been interviewed by a newsman until the announcement came from Stockholm, a man who had never been listed in the Who's Who of his adopted country. For good measure, the distinguished laureate-to-be was ill in bed with what he believed to be Asian flu when the Swedish ambassador called to deliver the news...
...this triumph Bohr won a Nobel Prize in 1922, and the Danish government built him a special physics institute in Copenhagen. From the start Bohr's "Copenhagen School" was international, attracting the best physicists from practically every country possessing good physicists...
...shake hands with his old adversary, Liberal St. Laurent. Then moving a few paces farther, he offered a warm handshake to Lester Bowles Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs in the old Liberal government and now an ordinary M.P. Reason: word had just reached Ottawa that the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament had awarded "Mike" Pearson its Peace Prize−the first ever to go to a Canadian...
...cash prize was recognition of Pearson's leadership in creating the United Nations Emergency Force to guard the peace in the Middle East. Already a front runner to succeed Louis St. Laurent (who sent in his resignation as Liberal leader in September), Nobel Winner Pearson became an odds-on favorite to take over as leader when the Liberals meet in January to make their choice...
...site of the birth 69 years ago of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill. A few years before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then a family hotel, since razed. In his thank-you note, the prize-laden (a Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went on a five-year drunk and finished...