Word: emeritus
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Sharing this year's three-way Nobel Prize for chemistry are German Chemist Manfred Eigen, 40; Ronald G.W. Norrish, 70, professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Cambridge University; and Norrish's onetime student George Porter, 48, now a professor of chemistry. Eigen, Norrish and Porter were honored for their studies of rapid chemical reactions, which date from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Their Nobel-winning research revealed the subtle changes that take place during chemical reactions that last only one-billionth of a second. All three came to their award-winning conclusions by subjecting samples of various...
Last June, still working as research director emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Page spent a full day working on project reports. That evening, he suddenly felt as if he had a fire in his chest, "much stronger than heartburn," he recalls. "The pain tends to disappear when you hold your breath hard and bear down. I knew I'd had a heart attack. In the four months since then, I've experienced first hand the problems that I'd been studying for years...
...competitor never understands when he has had enough," he says. "It was this sort of drive in my case." After the fact, he has reformed, now puts emphasis on the title "emeritus." He quit smoking. For exercise, he jogs in place beside his bed each morning, then performs calisthenics. He plans to resume tennis next spring, already takes regular walks. "And walking," he added at week's end on vacation in Hyannis, Mass., "is becoming increasingly possible because I no longer give a damn whether I get somewhere in a hurry...
Harvard Law School dean emeritus Erwin N. Griswold, hailed by President Johnson as one of the nation's foremost lawyers, was sworn in as Solicitor General yesterday in Washington...
Griswold said yesterday that he will leave the Law School in "not more than two weeks," although he does not yet know when the Senate will confirm his appointment. Since the 63 year-old Griswold is retiring, rather than taking a leave of absence, he will become dean emeritus. He will also retire as Langdell Professor...