Word: herschbach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuesday the peace prize went to Boston University's Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust expert. Herschbach's secretary thought some errant journalist was searching for professorial reaction to Wiesel's prize, and she decided not to put the call through to the professor...
...since Herschbach had not been told that he had won the award, it took him a while to figure out what the reporter was talking about, the professor said...
...face about 60 reporters and colleagues at 11:00, Herschbach remarked to one that while winning a Nobel Prize is "good fun," it's "not as exciting as the Red Sox comeback on Sunday...
Baseball was a consistent theme through the biggest day of Herschbach's life. He entered the Mallinckrodt Laboratories press conference remarking, "Now I know what it's like to be a baseball player...
After answering questions from reporters and posing in front of his machines for the rest of the afternoon, Herschbach attended an evening party in his honor at the home of Erving Professor of Chemistry William Klemperer, who Chemistry Labs Director Donald J. Ciappenelli said would certainly have a television turned to the Sox game...