Word: prize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private session with Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein (sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein), positively popping with both questions and answers. Disgusted with what he was convinced was a fraud, Cohn took his beating, complained to the show's sponsor (Revlon), and insisted that his $250 consolation prize be donated to charity...
This year's Nobel Prize in physics (worth $42,606) went last week to two professors of the University of California at Berkeley, Emilio Segre, 54, and Owen Chamberlain, 39. In 1955 they headed a team that found the long-sought antiprotons, key particles of the stranger-than-fiction world of antimatter (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955 et seq.). Antiprotons, which the Segre-Chamberlain team identified in a beam of subatomic debris created by Berkeley's 6.2-billion-volt bevatron, have the mass of ordinary protons but carry negative electric charges instead of positive charges. When a proton hits...
...Nobel Prize for chemistry went to Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky, 68, of Charles University, Prague, the first Czechoslovak to win a Nobel Prize. The award came as much-belated recognition for his discovery of polarography, a delicate electrical method of chemical analysis. It works by measuring the properties of ions, and can detect slight traces of metals in a drop or two of a complex solution. Discovered in 1925, polarography is still used all over the world by analytical chemists...
Noel-Baker Wins Peace Prize...
LONDON, Nov. 5--A British Laborite member of Parliament, Philip Noel-Baker, was named winner of the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize today. Mr. Noel-Baker, former Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, is one of his party's chief speakers on disarmament...