Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty members who have made significant polio virus discoveries this past year received the greatest acclaim of any of the seven 1954 Nobel prize-winners at the formal presentation in Stockholm yesterday...
...Nobel Prize of $28,086 awarded by the Caroline Institute followed on only somewhat less distinguished recognition. In June of 1953, Enders received the Passano, and last tall he was cited for "distinguished achievements in the cultivation of viruses," and given the Lasker Foundation Aware. Finally, last October he was sitting in his office being quizzed over the telephone by the Boston Globe's suspicious science writer, Frances Burns when word first come through that he and his two associated would receive the outstanding science award of the year. "Wait a second," Miss Burns said. "It's coming over...
...under the stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. An international group of physicists watched with some apprehension a massive, dead-black structure of graphite bricks with uranium spotted through it. Fermi was in charge. His discoveries in Italy about neutron behavior (which won him the Nobel Prize in 1938) had laid the "pile's" scientific foundations. His development work in the U.S. had built it out of theory. Now the pile was ready to go. The watchers knew that on its performance hung the success of the plutonium bomb and perhaps the outcome of World...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced that the first award of its special $25,000 prize for "especially meritorious contributions" in nuclear physics will go to the University of Chicago's ailing Dr. Enrico Fermi, 54, Italian-born Nobel Prizewinner (1938), who presided over the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942, thereby ushering in the Atomic...
Married. Eve Denise Curie, 49, French journalist, lecturer and author (most notably of Madame Curie, bestselling biography of her famed scientist mother, Marie Curie), postwar (1945-49) publisher of the influential anti-Communist French daily Paris Presse, sister of Communist Party-lining, Nobel-Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Mme. Irene Joliot-Curie; and Henry Richardson Labouisse, 50, United Nations official; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...