Chemistry Made; Medical Discoveries Also Noted Five Nobel Prizes for science have been awarded during the past year, and their bestowal raises some interesting points, writes the Scientific Correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian." They are divided among six scientists, three of whom are German. The German Government announced at the time of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Herr von Ossietzky that henceforth Germans would not be allowed to accept Nobel prizes, and, according to the German Legation at Copenhagen, this ruling still applies. Two of the three new German prizeman are chemists, and the third is a biologist. The awards show that the effects of Nazi control on science are not yet fully seen, especially in chemistry. The mature chemists who have escaped immediate persecution are still animated by the great intellectual impulse of German chemistry in the century preceding Hitler. The situation willie different twenty years hence, when the ill-educated youth of the present regime will have become candidates for intellectual leadership. But any sudden and complete collapse,
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