Word: nobelity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peter J. W. Debye, Nobel-Prizewinning
Gerty Theresa Cori. Nobel prizewinning biological chemist at Washington University . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D...
...Warner Bros, has three: 1) The Silver Chalice, with Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance and "a cast of thousands" in Novelist Thomas B. Costain's story about the cup Christ used at the Last Supper; 2) Land of the Pharaohs, which was written for the movies by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner; 3) Daniel and the Woman of Babylon, which has not yet been cast...
Accused of past Red ties by two ex-Communist tattlers, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, 49, Nobel Peace Prizewinner and now director of the U.N. Trusteeship Division, was given a clean political bill of health by the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board. Keeping mum on the possibility of perjury charges which might be slapped on Bunche's accusers, the board announced, after a two-day closed hearing: "There is no doubt as to [his] loyalty...
Died. Leon Jouhaux, 74, grand old man of French labor, winner of the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize; of a heart ailment, only a few hours after his re-election as president of the Economic Council, which made him fourth-ranking official in the French government; in Paris. Born and raised in Paris' industrial slums, Jouhaux went to work in a match factory, at 30 was boss of the powerful Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). During the strike-torn '303, he pulled the C.G.T. into the Socialist Front Populaire, alongside the Communists fought Hitler, Franco, Pierre Laval. Imprisoned...