Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer, merchant, chief-or a physicist like George Gamow, who will explode: "Intellectual? Intellectualism? I don't know what you're talking about!" Indeed, one of the difficulties in tagging the U.S. intellectual is his own resistance to the tag. It is quite characteristic of America that Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner should declare, with a hint of pride: "I ain't no intellectual...
Died. Ada Galsworthy, 89, widow of Britain's Nobel Prizewinning Author John Galsworthy, desultory travel writer (Over the Hills and Far Away) and model for Irene in Galsworthy's monumental trilogy The Forsyte Saga; in London...
...other: Britain's Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 1937 Nobel Peace Prizewinner...
...minor arguments against H-bomb tests to the continuing storms of scientific controversy. As early as 1947, Edward Teller, principle architect of the H-bomb, declared that "The effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons. . . .will endanger the survival of man." Last summer two groups of Nobel Prize-winning scientists condemned continued H-bomb tests; the one headed by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell noted the dangers of radioactive dust clouds and "slow torture of disease and disintegration" in future generations...
Among the notable discussants were Perry Miller, professor of American Literature; W. V. Quine, professor of Philosophy; Susanne K. Langer of Connecticut; Lewis Mumford; Sidney Hook of N.Y.U.; Ernest Nagel of Columbia; I. I. Rabi, Nobel-prize winning physicist of Columbia; Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; John E. Burchard, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-sponsor of the conference...