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WHEN THE NOBEL prizes were announced in October, the celebrations were especially spirited in a small yellow frame-house on Mt. Auburn St. Nicolaas Bloembergen, the Harvard laser expert who shared the physics prize, was on hand; so was David Hubel, the Medical School professor who shared the prize in medicine and physiology. From New Haven came James Tobin, the laureate in economics; and from Ithaca, Cornell professor Roald Hoffmann, who shared the chemistry prize, sent regrets. Finally, Paul Samuelson, the 1970 Nobel laureate in economics, dropped by from MIT for the festivities...
Half of the physics prize will go to Kai Siegbahn, 63, of Sweden's Uppsala University, who follows in the footsteps of his late father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...
...Bloembergen, who shared the $180,000 prize with two non-Harvard scientists "for the development of laser spectroscopy," wasn't the only University official "delighted" by the sudden news. His selection made him Harvard's third Nobel Laureate this year, tying a 27-year-old University mark. Just two weeks earlier, two Medical School professors had garnered the prize in medicine for research on how the brain processes visual information...
Gleefully sipping champagne at an afternoon celebration, Bloembergen and his colleagues attributed the recent rash of Nobel Laureates--seven in the last three years--to Harvard's demanding tenuring process, which they said winnows out all but the most stellar of scholars in a manner similar to the Nobel selection format of the Swedish Academy...
Concerns over diminishing University prizewinnings, though, was far from anybody's mind Monday. Bloembergen, an expert on non-linear optics and nuclear magnetic resonance, voiced only one worry, and it was appropriately mild: "I hope [the award] won't change my life too much because I consider my life pretty good...