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President Bill Clinton last week announced his intent to appoint Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus Norman F. Ramsey to the presidential committee charged with selecting recipients of the National Medal of Science Award...
...annual award is considered the American equivalent of the Nobel Prize...
Ramsey, who is regarded as one of the most influential physicists of his time, should have no trouble choosing future medal winners. Early in 1989 he himself won the National Medal of Science Award, an honor followed several months later with a Nobel Prize in physics...
...discovery of the physics behind the atomicclock, an extremely precise time measurementsystem, won him the Nobel Prize in physics andhalf of the $469,000 monetary award he shared withtwo other scientists...
Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson presented the award last Wednesday to the Kirkland House resident and neurobiology concentrator as about 300 of her classmates and local Radcliffe alumnae nibbled on the traditional strawberries and sipped ice tea served at the event...