MultiEducator · The 20th Century Almanac
HistoryCentral Est. 1996
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1937
The 20th Century Almanac · The Thirties

1937

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

The Hindenburg burned at Lakehurst, Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, and Japan's invasion of China brought the Nanjing Massacre. The Golden Gate Bridge opened, and The Life of Emile Zola won Best Picture.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
The Life of Emile Zola
Nobel · Literature
Martin Du Gard
World Series
New York Yankees vs. NY Giants Series: 4
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Spencer Tracy

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1937

Champions

NCAAChamps: Pittsburgh Record: 9-0-1
Heisman TrophyClinton Frank, yale, HB points: 524
Stanley CupDetroit Red Wings vs. New York Rangers Series: 3-2 US Open Golf: Ralph Guldahl Score: 281 Course: Oakland Hills CC Location: Birmingham, MI
World SeriesNew York Yankees vs. NY Giants Series: 4-1

Academy Awards

Honoring 1937
Best Picture
The Life of Emile Zola
Best Director
Leo McCarey
The Awful Truth
Best Actor
Spencer Tracy
Captains Courageous
Best Actress
Luise Rainer
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Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize was divided equally between: HAWORTH, Sir WALTER NORMAN, Great Britain, Birmingham University, b. 1883, d. 1950: "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C" KARRER, PAUL, Switzerland, Zurich University, b. 1889, d. 197
Literature
MARTIN DU GARD, ROGER, France, b. 1881, d. 1958: "for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel-cycle Les Thibault"
Peace
Campaign
Physiology or Medicine
VON SZENT-GY…RGYI, ALBERT, Hungary, Szeged University, b. 1893, d. 1986: "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"
Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: DAVISSON, CLINTON JOSEPH, U.S.A., Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, NY, b. 1881, d. 1958; and THOMSON, Sir GEORGE PAGET, Great Britain, London Universi ty, b. 1892, d. 1975: "for their experimental dis

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman ... "You Can't Take It With You"
Fiction
Margaret Mitchell ... "Gone With the Wind"
History
Van Wyck Brooks ... "The Flowering of New England"
Public Service
"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"