NOBEL PRIZE AWARDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19792, 12 November 1927, Page 11

NOBEL PRIZE AWARDS.

PHYSICS AND LITERATURE.

RECIPIENTS DESIGNATED.

(Received November 11, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 10. The Nobel prize for physics for 1926 has been jointly awarded to Professor Arthur C-ompton, of Chicago, and Professor Charles Rees Wilson, of Cambridge. The literature prize for 1926 has been awarded to the Italian woman novelist, Signorina Grazia Deledda.

Professor A. H Compton was born in Ohio in 1882. He is an eminent American physicist. He discovered changes in the wave-lengths of X-rays when scattered, and made the first wave-length measurement of hard gamma rays. He was Professor of Physics at Washington University, 1920-23, and since then he has held the same position at Chicago University. During the war he wua civilian associate of the United States Signal Corps and developed several new aeroplane instruments. He has written numerous articles on scientific subjects. Professor C. T. Rees Wilson is a fellow of Sidney Susses College, Cambridge. He was born in 1869 in Scotland. Since 1895 he has been at the Sidney Sussex College, engaged in research work on condensation of nuclei, ions and atmospheric electricity. Signorina Grazia Deledda, the Italian authoress, was born in 1875. Her novels are largely on the theme of Sardinian peasant life.