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...world's most munificent award for scientific achievement is the John and Alice Tyler Ecology Prize. Established in 1973 as a bequest from the co-founder of the Farmers Insurance Group, it carries a tax-free emolument of $150,000-more than the highest amount given Nobel prizewinners-and is awarded annually to the person who has done the most to improve the environment. Last year, when the first Tyler prize was given, the eight-member panel of judges somewhat diminished the impact of the award by dividing it among three men: Yale Ecologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Smog Expert...
Auchincloss said yesterday that the bequest was residuary--Harvard will receive what is left of the estate after administrative fees and $110,000 in other cash bequests have been deducted...
Hollingsworth, who is handling receipt of the bequest for the University, said yesterday that he had not yet been given any specific estimate of its size...
...said, however, that whatever its size the University will "of course, be delighted to get it." No one at the University was told in advance to expect a bequest from Lippmann, Hollingsworth said...
Lippmann played a central role in the formation of the Nieman Fellows program, begun in 1937. He advised then-Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 on the use of money from the bequest of Lucius Nieman, late publisher of The Milwaukee Journal. The money was given to Harvard with the stipulation that it be used for the promotion of better journalism...