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...Physicists Arthur Holly Compton and Robert Andrews Millikan, Physiologist Karl Landsteiner of the U. S.; Chemists Hans Fischer and Friedrich Bergius, Physiologist Hans Spemann, Biologist Otto Warburg of Germany: Physiologists Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Edgar Douglas Adrian of England: Centrifugist Theodor Svedberg of Sweden; Physiologist August Krogh of Denmark...
...placing their straw hats over their hearts. The crowd shouted, whistled, clapped in unison. The noise was soon drowned by the ovation for the German team which, as host, entered the arena last of all. When all the athletes had lined up neatly on the green infield, Dr. Theodor Lewald, head of the German Organizing Committee, made a 20-minute speech to introduce Herr Hitler, who, dressed in a brown uniform, had arrived an hour before...
...green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans Fischer of the University of Munich. A resounding roll of Nobel Prize winners included three physicists: Arthur Holly Compton (Chicago), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Werner Heisenberg (Leipzig); three chemists: Friedrich Bergius (Heidelberg), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge), Theodor Svedberg (Upsala, Sweden...
Cream separators are centrifuges. To bacteriologists who use more delicate centrifuges to whirl germs out of solutions, the name Svedberg is as familiar as the name De Laval is to dairymen. Lately at Sweden's University of Upsala, shy, black-eyed, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Theodor Svedberg, 50, perfected two new rotors in which at normal operating speed a dime would press against the wall with a force of half a ton. One rotor he kept. The other he sent to the du Pont research laboratories at Wilmington, Del. There last week Dr. Elmer Otto Kraemer put the machine through...
...world no longer believed what the Allies put in writing in 1919: that Germany and its allies were solely responsible for the War. But to readers who still took the unreconstructed view that the Western World had been invaded in 1914 by a barbarian horde, an Xerxes' host, Theodor Wolff's study of war origins would seem a surprisingly civilized Persian version. The Eve of 1914 let no unsuspected wildcat out of the bag but recounted in scholarly, Teutonic detail the train of gunpowder facts that led from 1909 to the explosion five years later. Laymen found...