Word: nobelman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directly applicable to preventive medicine. Among the achievements of the Institute are development of a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Alphonse Guérin in 1921,* Emile Roux's and Alexandre Yersin's epoch-making work on the diphtheria bacillus, the typhus discoveries of Nobelman Charles Nicolle of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, the syphilis and encephalitis investigations of Constantin Levaditi...
...recent years Dr. The Svedberg, a Swedish Nobelman, has done much research on giant protein molecules, determining their molecular weights after separating them in powerful centrifuges (whirling machines) of his own devising...
...There the German guards wore him down until he gave his word that even if he ever got out of the hospital he would never again engage in any sort of pacifism. There was no suggestion of foul play last week in the death of long-ailing, wornout, beaten Nobelman Ossietsky...
Research on the atom has attracted some of the most brilliant minds of contemporary science, and atomic history is strewn with the names of Nobel Prizewinners. Aged Sir J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron, is a Nobelman; so is Niels Bohr of Denmark and so was the late Lord Rutherford of England, who formulated atomic structure. Their atom was, and still is, a nucleus surrounded by electrons. But in the 1920's, with the powerful searchlight of relativity illuminating the atomic field, it became apparent that the picture of the electron as a simple particle of negative electricity...
...papers on subjects ranging from the folklore of Schoharie County, N. Y., to sarcomatous changes in mammary adenomas. Many an industrial and academic research laboratory had exhibits. Harold Clayton Urey, newest U. S. Nobel Laureate, was there. When the apparatus for making heavy water broke down he fixed it. Nobelman Robert Andrews Millikan was 'there to talk about cosmic rays, show the latest apparatus for research in artificial radioactivity. On hand was many another bigwig. But the name on everyone's tongue was that of Albert Einstein. The great German journeyed from the Institute for Advanced Study...