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...double-helix structure of DNA. In 82 years of Nobel history, just six other women have won honors in scientific categories; and only two of these were named alone, without fellow honorees: France's Marie Curie in 1911, for discovering radium and polonium, and Britain's Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964, for deciphering the structure of penicillin and other compounds. McClintock is the first to win unshared honors in medicine and physiology. Said Watson, who has been director at Cold Spring Harbor and hence McClintock's boss for 15 years: "It is not a controversial award...
...Nobelman Charles Townes came close to being a linguist, Nobelwoman Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 54, of Oxford, third woman ever to win the chemistry award,* came even closer to being an archaeologist. Born in Cairo while her father was Director of Education for the Sudan, she spent her early school holidays in digs in the Near East. But soon after she entered Oxford's Somerville College in 1928, she got caught up in the exciting mysteries of chemistry. By her second year, she was already concentrating on the intricacies of X-ray analysis of large, complicated molecules-the work that...
Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot (?-1890), Blackfoot chief: "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...
...head snapped around. The two talked for about a minute, as President Garcia, sitting at Ike's side, politely assumed an air of interest in the parade. When Ike turned again, his face told the story: his mouth turned down; his eyes, framed with crowfoot lines, squinted. Then he shook his head and pursed his lips. Turning back to Goodpaster and to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who was close by, Ike said: "We better get something out on this as soon as we can. You fellows ride over to the palace with me after this thing. And get Doug...
...poor Nelly starve," said Charles II of his mistress, Nell Gwyn. And George M. Cohan's last words were of his wife: "Look after Agnes." But few have left behind them last words as filled with dignity and grace as those of an Indian chief named Crowfoot, leader of the Blackfoot Confederacy: "A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time...