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...Harvard professors are: Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus Konrad E. Bloch; Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Elias J. Corey; and Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus Norman F. Ramsey...
...Both Bloch and Corey said yesterday that their receipt of the medal marks a change in the nature of the award, which is usually given to scientists who have served the government in some capacity. Bloch and Corey described themselves as academicians who have never worked for the government and said they were surprised they received the award. Ramsey could not be reached for comment...
...There has been a change," Bloch said, referring to what he called the "shifting emphasis" away from giving the award only to those scientists who have served the government...
...writers scheduled to read at the Signet are Pavel Srut of Czecho-slovakia, Mark Bloch of France, Dan Tsalka of Israel, Hernan Lara of Mexico, Dr. O. Sae Yung of Korea and Lada Galina of Bulgaria...
...your headline, "A Matter of Breadth versus Depth", and to do so in general terms. Where historians are concerned, breadth and depth are not antithetical concepts. Among the social sciences, history is that discipline whose practitioners most need to combine broad and specific knowledge. The great historians (Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, to speak only of the dead) created novel and lasting interpretations by combining profound knowledge of particular topics with a wide factual basis and broad conceptualization. This view of history is, I submit, well worth espousing; and is not an ignoble aspiration for a History Department. Angeliki Laiou Chairman...