Author: Kaplan, Flora.
Title: Nobel Prize Winners: Charts, Indexes, Sketches.
Description: (Chicago, IL): published by the author, (1939). (1939). - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], dark blue cloth with a light green printed label mounted on the front cover. The binding is rubbed with the head & tail of the spine chipped. The label covering the front cover is darkened & soiled. 60 pages. Illustrated with tables & with a large folding chart. Also with 2 black-and-white portraits. Ex-library with ink numerals on the front cover & the first portrait, library stamps on both pastedowns, an ink notation & a blind stamp on the title and labels partially remove from the rear endpaper & pastedown. Good.

The portraits are of Alfred Nobel and of Jane Addams, co-winner with Nicholas Murray Butler of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. The folding chart is a chronological list of the 200 Nobel Prize-winners in the 38 years from 1901 to 1938. There are brief bios of the winners and tables listing them alphabetically, by the category of the prize [chemistry, literature,etc.] and by nationality and, in some cases, by religion. Good .

Keywords: HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL PRIZES; INTERNATIONAL AWARDS; NOBEL PRIZE-WINNERS; CHARTS; INDEXES; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; FOLDING CHART; FLORA KAPLAN, COMPILER; ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF WINNERS; NATIONALITY OF WINNERS; WINNERS BY CATEGORY OF PRIZE; CHRONOLOGICAL IND

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