Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in Italy, Giacconi completed his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Milan in 1954 and continued his studies in elementary particles at the University of Indiana and Princeton University with a Fulbright Fellowship. In the late fifties he joined American Science and Engineering Corp., where he began work in x-ray astronomy which led to the discovery of the first x-ray star...
...cailing has persisted. Next year, Smith will use a Rockefeller fellowship to travel to Sikkim, a tiny nation north of India, where he will teach science and mathematics to local schoolchildren. "It's a small school, akin to our little red school house," Smith says. He will live isolated in the rural countryside, without heat or hot water...
...continues, "I think the whole fellowship application process is extremely important. You have to figure out how to explain yourself in three pages, and ask yourself a lot of difficult questions. I ended up taking a lot of long walks up and down Brattle Street...
...four years of dorm living, and a semester braving Cambridge cockroaches off campus. Tanya Luhrmann is looking forward to the elegant lifestyle of a different Cambridge university. At Emmanuel College in Cambridge. England, she will occupy the oak-panelled John Harvard rooms which from part of her De Jersey fellowship. "Apparently," she says, "it means having people over for coffee...
Luhrmann's sojourn to Cambridge--funded by a National Science Fellowship as well as the De Jersey--comes after almost four years devoted to "the problem of finding a coherent theory of society which accounts for the individual...