Word: venkata
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State Banquet (on gold plate) began, red-faced, protuberant-eyed Author Lewis found himself beside Princess Ingrid, blonde Royal granddaughter, thus had a definite edge of precedence over the three other Nobel Prizemen present: Medical Researcher Dr. Karl Landsteiner (Manhattan), Chemist Hans Fischer (Munich) and Physicist Sir Chandrase- Hara Venkata Raman of Calcutta (TIME, Nov. 24). Buxom, brunette Mrs. Lewis had at her elbow His Majesty's youngest brother Prince Eugen, 65. She remarked heartily afterward, "I have a date with him for Sunday...
...Nobel Prizes; at Stockholm, Sweden. Annual occasion: anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish founder of the $9,000,000 fund for international awards. 1930 recipients: Dr. Hans Fischer, in Chemistry; Sinclair (Babbitt) Lewis, in Literature; Dr. Karl Landsteiner, in Medicine ; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, in Physics...
...their 1930 chemistry choice, they turned to Munich, as they have al ready done five times. This year they chose Herr Doktor Hans Fischer, 49, professor of organic chemistry at the Munich Institute of Technology. Outstanding physicist for the year they found in India, dignified Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, 42, professor at the University of Calcutta...