Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockholm last week a committee of Swedish doctors was deciding whether to give the 1937 Nobel Prize ($40,000) for Medicine to: 1) Biochemist Ibert Szent-Györgyi of the Hungarian University of Szeged who discovered that a certain acid (ascorbic) in the adrenal glands of healthy men and animals had the same beneficial effect as Vitamin C contained in oranges and lemons; 2) Biochemist Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham (England) University, who analyzed the chemical structures of Vitamin C and the ascorbic acid which Professor Szent-Györgyi isolated; or 3) Biochemist Paul Karrer of the University...
Sterling Professor of English Literature At Yale, Tinker succeeds Johnny A. E. Roosval, of the University of Stockholm, in the chair established in 1925 by Charles C. Stillman '38 in memory of Charles Eliot Norton 1846, professor of the History...
...diplomatic service the career of James Theodore Marriner followed an orthodox course. He was third secretary at Stockholm, proceeded methodically to second secretary at Bucharest and, after spending three years in Washington as secretary in the Division of Western European Affairs, at the State Department, became first secretary at Berne. From 1927 to 1931 he headed the Division of Western European Affairs. In 1931 he was made counselor of the Embassy in Paris, soon became better known to U. S. travelers, including members of the Roosevelt family, than many members of the Embassy staff. In the meantime he had acquired...
Gunnar Myrdal, noted European economist, professor of Economics at the University of Stockholm, and adviser to the Swedish government on economic matters, has been named the Godkin Lecturer here for the current year. He will deliver a series of lectures next May on "The System of Public Finance and the Business Fluctuations...
Instructive but comparatively tame were the 18th and 19th-Century paintings which Director Plimpton and Stockholm's National Museum Curator Sixten Strömbom had included. Discreetly confined to historical art, the show stopped with such established fin de siècle cosmopolitans as Anders Zorn. Ernst Josephson, contained no work by such up-&-coming young Swedish painters as Ewald Dahlskog and Leander Engstr...