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...midst of a heated debate about West Germany's budget one afternoon last week, Bundestag President Kai-Uwe von Hassel suddenly clanged his hand bell and the packed parliament fell silent. A moment later, its members broke into thunderous applause, and deputies on both sides of the aisle rose in a standing ovation. Von Hassel had just announced that Chancellor Willy Brandt was the winner of the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize. Greatly moved, Brandt told the Bundestag that he would do everything "to make myself worthy of this honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Prize for a German Peacemaker | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Despite the fact that the Shah strictly followed the rules of protocol laid down at the 1815 Congress of Vienna, some guests were miffed. When Kai-Ewe von Hassel, president of West Germany's Bundestag, was sent to represent (Federal President Gustav Heinemann, protocol decreed that he be shifted to a hotel and his tent assigned to the higher-ranking Princess Bilgis of Afghanistan. Von Hassel was not happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Iran: The Show of Shows | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

Three years ago, when West Germany's air force was losing almost two Starfighter jets a month in crashes, Kai-Uwe von Hassel, who was then the Federal Republic's Defense Minister, offered a very personal defense of the ill-fated aircraft. To critics of the U.S.-designed, German-built fighter-bomber. Von Hassel replied that he had such faith in the plane that he had no hesitation about allowing his only son to become a Starfighter pilot. Last week, after a routine 75-minute flight over the North Sea, a Starfighter piloted by Lieut. Joachim von Hassel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fatal Defense | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...Nobel Prize in Chemistry meanwhile went to Britain's Derek H.R. Barton, 51, and Norway's Odd Hassel, 72. for their discovery and application of the so-called "conformation concept." Their findings have proven valuable in the synthesis of new drugs and other compounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Physics: Order in the Zoo | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Barton's research involved the bonding of atoms in cyclohexane-molecules whose basis is a ring of six carbon atoms. Odd Hassel, the Norwegian chemist with whom Barton shares the Nobel Prize, discovered that the carbon rings formed two types of bonds. Barton explained the occurrence and behavior of both types...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recipient of Nobel Award Formed Ideas at Harvard | 11/1/1969 | See Source »

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