SOCIETY OF NOBEL PRIZEWINNERS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 82, 31 December 1929, Page 9

SOCIETY OF NOBEL PRIZEWINNERS

PIOUS CELEBRATIONS. According to the Vienna Press, steps will shortly be taken to establish a .Society of Nobel Prize-Winners. A committee has been appointed to draw up the statutes and make all the preliminary arrangements. The leader of this movement is Dr. Robert Barany, a “Privat-Docent” at the University of Vienna, who was a Nobel Prize-Winner in 1914. One of the first tasks of the new society will be the arranging of the celebrations of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel and the thirty-fifth anniversary of the drawing-up of the will establishing the famous foundation, both of which fall next year. It is of interest to note that nationality has never been allowed to enter into the question of award. Thus from 1901 to 1926 the Nobel Prize-Winners included 29 Germans, 19 Frenchmen, 18 Britishers (among them two Indians, one Australian, one Canadian, and one New Zealander), five Austrians, etc. Vienna has been suggested as the permanent headquarters of this SuperAcademy of the Arts and Sciences.