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Carlo Rubbia was in a Milan cab, en route to Linate Airport last week and worrying about a possible Italian air-traffic controllers' strike. Suddenly the pop music on the taxi's radio was interrupted by a news bulletin: Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, his colleague at CERN, the great European nuclear research complex, had been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. At first the taxi driver did not believe his passenger's excited claims to be the man in the news. "But when I convinced him," Rubbia recalls, "he offered me a free ride...
...first nobody believed his proposal, particularly since it would require the conversion of the synchrotron into a particle collider, at a cost of $55 million. Rubbia's notions, however, had one staunch supporter: Simon van der Meer, a senior engineer at CERN. Van der Meer designed a device critical to the taming of the colliding beams in Rubbia's experiment. In 1979 CERN gave Rubbia and Van der Meer a go-ahead for their project, and by 1983 the three particles had been found...
...Dutch-born Van der Meer, 58, who once worked for Philips Electronics as a research scientist, is the very opposite of Rubbia. He is self-effacing and calm; winning the Nobel does not noticeably excite him, although he admittedly wanted it. Says he: "Let us say that I didn't exclude it, yet I did not dare to hope we'd get it." -By Natalie Angier. Reported by Robert Kroon/Geneva
...abridgement of academic freedom. The University has supported his researches and has been more than reasonable in the precautions it has asked him to take. In dismissing him, it reacted to willful repudiation of these safeguards. But surely the University has not taken this exceptional step in response to meer misdemeanors. In firing Richard Alpert, Harvard has dissociated itself not only from flagrant dishonesty but also from behavior that is spreading infection throughout the academic community. The Harvard Crimson...
Three more students have joined the five day-old fast in protest of Harvard's investments in firms doing business with South Africa and Vice President and General Consul Daniel Steiner '54 has indicated that he is willing to meer with three other students who have gone without food since Monday, fast spokesman Barry S. Zellen '84 said yesterday...