Show A 1 significant All allalie Alil the num nobel prize situation this year attracted attract ea an unusual amount of a attention I 1 ten t foil because there wits was no ponce peace prize awarded that tanti of course wits was only natural since war was blazing all around the prize giving country interest lu in the peace prize story however unfortunately distracted attention from the other prizes one of these pointed a very interesting moral the award in question went to professor gerhard for his discovery of a cure for pneumonia and a number of other of mans most difficult diseases and there was one particularly interesting te fact about the situation which was more or less lost in ili the shuffle it was the fact that the award an a id was as made madeko to a man who conducted lite his researches not net with tile the aid of some borne university or hospital but with the old of industry why Is this important the answer aimer Is not obscure the important point Is the fact that 1 the lie nard award recognizes a trend of the times that in ili those nations aich lune have advanced tile the farthest towards better living industry has i taken the lead in ili g industrial du research rebear cli because Ue cause america hns has far and away aun led till all the other countries counti ies of the world void in ili tills this respect and because it Is prepared today to achieve further progress in ill the same direction it is only natural that the nobel prize award to a leader of industrial research should liae have significance for lill all americans |