Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. John R. (for Raleigh) Mott, 89, elder statesman of Protestantism, Methodist layman, honorary president of the World Council of Churches and the World's Alliance of the Y.M.C.A., a founder in 1895 of the World Student Christian Federation, 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner; in Orlando...
...Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner, after picking up the National Book Award for last year's best fiction (A Fable), gave a peripatetic interview to New York Timesman Harvey Breit as the two strolled down Manhattan's gilt-edged Park Avenue. Faulkner suddenly exclaimed that his widely quoted statement about fellow Nobel Prizewinning Author Ernest Hemingway's literary cowardice (TIME, Dec. 13) had been Yoknapatawphaed all out of context.* "I was asked the question down at the University of Mississippi-who were the five best contemporary writers and how did I rate them," drawled Faulkner...
...University scientists, John F. Enders and Thomas H. Weller, received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on polio vaccine, and soon afterwards Enders announced that he was near success on a vaccine for measles...
Recent criticism of the new Salk vaccine against polio was deemed premature by John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology and recipient of the Nobel Prize this year for his work in isolating and growing the polio virus...
...short, unexcited paper presented to the French Academy of Sciences has provoked a storm of foreboding in the French press and public. Written by physicist Charles-Noel Martin and sponsored by the Nobel Prizewinning Prince Louis de Broglie, it is entitled "On the Cumulative Effects of Thermonuclear [Hydrogen] Explosions on the Surface of the Globe...