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...Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with in creasing speed of contraction, and Dr. Albert Sabin, 57, who developed the oral polio vaccine, both recipients of $40,000 Antonio Feltrinelli awards presented by the Lincei National Academy, Italy's leading arts and sciences institute...
...native of Germany, Jaeger held an honored place in international scholarship, and his works were read in several languages. He held the International Prize in Philosophy of Italy's Academia Nazionale del Lincei, the order Pour le Merite, which is the highest scholarly honor of West Germany, the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Redeemer and the Commander's Cross of the Order of George I, both Greek honors...
Earth & Sun. It was not always so. The academy likes to trace its lineage back three centuries to the Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of Lynxes-named for an animal then believed to have especially keen eyesight), probably the world's oldest scientific society. But in those days, relations between the Papacy and science were far from cordial. The four young men who met in a Roman palace in 1603 to organize the accademia were taking a considerable chance. And trouble came quickly. In 1633, Galileo Galilei, most famous of the Lynxes, was picked up by the Inquisition and compelled...
...Professor reported that, along with Thomas Mann, he had been named to the German order Pour le Merite, which consists of the thirty foremost living German scholars in all fields of science and the arts. Jaeger also admitted that he had received a prize from the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy's most prominent learned society. The prize, he remarked with a deprecatory laugh, amounted to something over $8,000. And then, looking apologetically at the members of the Department, Jaeger added: "I hope you don't mind...
...branches of learning. M. Boutroux is also a member of the "Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques," a member of the "Institut de France," honorary professor of history of modern philosophy at the University of Paris, Commandeur of the Legion of Honor, associe etranger of the "Academie des Lincei in Rome," and correspondent of the British Academy...
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