Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobel Prize winner John F. Enders of the Medical School reported last night that the research methods he used in isolating the polio virus have now led to the first possible development of a preventive vaccine against messes...
...conclusive proof that Enders and his staff at Childrens' Hospital in Boston have isolated--and for the first time grown in a laboratory--the elusive virus will be delayed until Enders returns from receiving his Nobel award in Stockholm in December. He, Dr. Thomas Weller, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, were awarded the $36,066 prize for their work in developing the polio vaccine...
...Oslo to accept his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 79, saintly medical missionary of French Equatorial Africa, stood in a shiny old black suit and eloquently pointed a way to peace for distinguished listeners, including Norway's King Haakon VII. His message: man can abolish war only through a revival of the same ethical spirit which lifted Europe from the Dark Ages. Said Schweitzer: "Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature...
...recognition of these discoveries, both basic and practical, the Royal Swedish Academy last week awarded Dr. Pauling the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
...Nobel Prize in Physics for 1954 was divided between two Germans: Drs. Max Born and Walther Bothe, who were leaders in the "new physics" that started with relativity and quantum theory and ended (so far) with the hydrogen bomb. Dr. Born, 72, who fled Germany in the mid-'30s is credited with much of the difficult mathematics that enabled physicists to understand the behavior of atoms...