OUR WONDERFUL GENERATION 



and that we are begining to appreciate its impor- 

 tance. That the country at large did appreciate the 

 importance of the topics discussed was evident from 

 the space given the proceedings in the daily press. 

 And the interest was well merited, for the discussions 

 had to do with such topics as the prevention of dis- 

 ease, the reduction of infant mortality, the lessening 

 of insanity, ami the prolongation of human life in 

 general. 



THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 



Such illustrations show why ours has been termed 

 a practical age. But we need not look far afield to 

 discover that the devotees of theoretical science have 

 been no less busy and no less successful. On the 

 10th of December each year a little company of men 

 assemble in Stockholm to receive the Nobel prizes 

 in Science, of which everyone has heard. The an- 

 nual prizes in Science, each carrying an honorarium 

 of about $40,000, are awarded for notable achieve- 

 ments in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, and Medi- 

 cine. With a few notable exceptions, the recipients 

 of these prizes have been workers in pure science; 

 and the results of their investigations constitute a 

 most remarkable body of new knowledge. 



The discoveries recognized include the X-ray, 

 which founded an entirely irew department -of science; 

 radium and its allies, which founded another; the law 

 of osmosis, with its fundamental explanation of the 

 phenomena of liquids; the ion-chemistry, which 

 carries us to the very heart of the atomic world ; the 

 electron, or unit particle of electricity, which reveals 



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