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Last week twice-married Grandfather Ylppo (his youngest child is only two) turned 70. To honor him, colleagues had established the Ylppo Award, to be given every five years to pediatricians for special achievements. Ylppo himself was a tiny, inconspicuous figure among the frock-coated dignitaries in the great hall of Helsinki University as the Ylppo gold medal was bestowed on Harvard's Professor Clement Smith, outstanding researcher into the breathing mechanism of the newborn (he advises against spanking them). Said Disciple Smith: "It is often stated that Arvo Ylppo invented the premature baby. I doubt this...
Last week Hocking tore himself away from his farm and journeyed to Manhattan to receive a prize that is highly coveted among scholars-the LeComte du Noüy Award, named after the late French biophysicist who tried so eloquently to reconcile the conflicts between science and religion. The award is given alternately in France and the U.S. each year for the book that most successfully points the way to "the greatest development of the spiritual thought of our epoch.'' The book Hocking won it for: The Coming World Civilization (Harper...
Chen Ning Yang, professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute, and Tsung Dao Lee, a Columbia professor studying on leave of absence at the Institute, had won the highest award in Physics for their achievement in the area of elementary particles. They had shown that nature can distinguish between her right and left hand and thus had shattered one of the foundations of physical sciences...
...also honored a famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
...Caldwell was voted "Coach of the Year" by members of the American Football Coaches Association, and in 1952 received the Touchdown Club of New York award for "meritorious service and outstanding contributions to football...