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...committee that picks the Nobel Prizewinners in physics and chemistry debated long and secretly. One of the leading candidates was a Swede, and the Swedish committee did not want to be accused of favoritism. Last week they announced their decision: Sweden's Professor Arne Tiselius, 46, of Uppsala University, got the $44,371.63* prize in chemistry...
...could be proved that germs reach the earth from other planets, scientists would be very much surprised. But last week scientists were considering the idea. Professor Louis Backman of Uppsala University, Stockholm, a pharmacologist and medical writer well known throughout Europe, had suggested that it was entirely possible that organisms causing recent flu epidemics had come from Venus, Jupiter or Mars...
Although new as an explanation of sunspots, the theory that stars are hotter at their poles is well known among astronomers. It was first stated in 1923 by Dr. Edward Arthur Milne, Oxford astrophysicist. Dr. Edward Hugo von Zeipel, astronomer of Sweden's University of Uppsala, and Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, famed astronomer of Cambridge University, have both worked on the theory...