Word: svedberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish Who's Who gives Dr. Svedberg's Christian name as "Theodor (The)." Dr. Svedberg received the 1926 Nobel prize for Chemistry...
...will probably have been informed already that press reports led you into error in regard to the name of one of the recipients of a Nobel award [TIME, Dec. 20]. Dr. Svedberg's name is The and not, as the press assumed, Theodore. The error was very widespread, and I am writing this not as a complaint, but merely for your future information. It is not surprising that a name such as The should be assumed to be an abbreviation of Theodore...