Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adenauer, and the opposition Social Democrats have been shrilly demanding that Germany refuse to arm itself with atomic weapons lest it bring atomic devastation on itself. Added to their outcries was the opposition to nuclear weapons expressed by 18 of Germany's most eminent scientists, and by aging Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Adenauer decided that it was politically wiser to backtrack temporarily, assured the Russians that Germany did not have any atomic weapons and had not asked...
Willard Libby was primarily addressing himself to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the illustrious missionary-physician and Nobel Peace Prizewinner, who had called for an end to H-bomb testing because of the strontium 90 peril. Is it not preferable. Dr. Libby gently asked Dr. Schweitzer, to accept this small risk rather than "the far greater risk, to freedom-loving people everywhere," of slackening "our defenses against the totalitarian forces"-until some method of safeguarded disarmament has been achieved...
...George Minot, William Murphy and George Whipple won the Nobel Prize for their discovery, proved on Brigham patients, that liver extract is effective against pernicious anemia. Other notable Brigham pioneering involved historic work with the artificial kidney, transplanting kidneys between identical twins, and removing both adrenal glands from certain cancer patients...
Manly's article does not acknowledge Harvard's leadership in every area of education. "California with six Nobel prize winners, has a more distinguished faculty in the natural sciences and Yale is superior in the liberal arts, both in the distinction of its faculty and the quality of its undergraduate program," he claims...
From one of West Germany's principal nuclear-research centers, the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Göttingen, came an unexpected rejoinder. Led by four Nobel Prizewinners-among them 77-year-old Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government...