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In conclusion, it has to be remembered that all is not well in 

 science. Politicians are indifferent to its welfare ; public 

 authorities are adepts at sweating the Medical Officers of Health 

 and there is nothing said ; the Universities are unable to pay 

 respectable salaries even to their professors ; manufacturers are 

 only beginning to realise the part that science can play in 

 developing their business ; the city is open at any time to the 

 bait offered by the charlatan (I have myself been sent out by a 

 newspaper to investigate the case of a man who was kept for 

 two years in the city on his bare statement that he could synthe- 

 sise radium) ; many of the most promising men who would 

 gladly undertake research, finding that it offers them no career, 

 turn their attention instead to money-making; and industries 

 that are ours by right are being driven abroad. These national 

 evils will continue so long as we remain unscientific as a nation. 

 The salvation of the situation lies in the hands of the press ; but 

 the press is and will remain powerless to help, so long as the 

 men of science only give it, as at present, their grudging 

 co-operation. 



The Noble Prizes for 1913 



These have been awarded as follows : 



For Physics, to Prof. Kammerlingh-Onnes, Leyden. 

 For Chemistry, to Prof. Alfred Weiner, Zurich. 

 For Medicine, to Prof. Charles Richet, Paris. 

 For Literature, to Rabindra Nath Tagore, India. 



