Word: offish
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...learned faculties charged with this duty move ponderously. Last year they awarded no prizes (TIME, Nov. 30, 1926). Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University of Gottingen, and Professor Gustav Hertz, of Halle University; 1926 Physics prize to Professor Jean B. Perrin, University of Paris; 1925 Chemistry prize...