Word: lown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...link the Chernobyl disaster to the dangers of radiation in a nuclear war. In Cologne, Yevgeni Chazov, a Soviet surgeon and Deputy Health Minister, warned that "the accident proved that medicine will be helpless if even a few nuclear bombs are detonated." Along with U.S. Surgeon Bernard Lown, Chazov received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Chazov's remarks, delivered before a meeting of the organization, drew a sharp rebuke from members of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Party, which supports nuclear power. A spokesman called the physicians...
...Bachrach, who is also a member--and is considered the most leftward of the candidates by many observers. He has received $350 in campaign contributions from Critical Legal Studies guru and Harvard Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy '64, and smaller amounts from Nobel Laureates Professor of Cardiology Bernard Lown and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Bernard Lown, who attended the event, said afterwards that he was "amazed that there are such barbarians in Cambridge...
...need a politics of human survival, and this is what we doctors speak for," said prize-winner Dr. Bernard Lown, an associate professor at the School of Public Health. Lown became the 29th Harvard professor to snag a Nobel since...
...Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...