Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first practical proof of Einstein's new cosmic concepts came in 1919, when measurements of the sun's eclipse proved that light rays bend around solid objects, as Einstein's theory postulated. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921. Bertrand Russell wrote: "The theory of relativity is probably the greatest synthetic achievement of the human intellect up to the present time. It sums up the mathematical and physical labors of more than 2,000 years. Pure geometry, from Pythagoras to Riemann, the dynamics and astronomy of Galileo and Newton, the theory of electro-magnetism as it resulted...
...sensitive to man-started chain reactions. Not all meteorologists will accept this conclusion. Vincent Schaefer, developer of Dry Ice cloud-seeding, says that Project Scud proves only that seeding of one type produces no startling results. It does not prove that other efforts would be ineffective His former boss, Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, asked to participate in Project Scud, but was refused...
...here, and most of those who have been here in the past. For it becomes a little absurd when vague charges are balanced, for example, against the record of 174 Harvard men who are president or directors of the country's hundred largest industrial corporations, the University's eight Nobel prize winners, four senators, twenty-five congressmen, and three governors, to mention only the most prominent. It is then indeed difficult to believe in the 'red' reputation of a university which has been described as the the "last refuge of the Puritan...
...preoccupation with immediate, practical results, the U.S. is badly neglecting pure scientific research. The warning was sounded last week by Nobel-Prize-winning Atomic Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg* before a joint meeting in San Francisco of the Atomic Industrial Forum and Stanford's Research Institute. Seaborg's clincher: of the nation's huge ($3 billion) annual outlay for science, "no more than 5% . . . is used for basic research...
...Their discovery paves the way for the growth of the virus in quantities massive enough for use in a vaccine," the statement said. October's Nobel Prize citation hailed the team's discovery of "the ability of poliomyelitis to multiply in tissue from primates...