Word: mertonism
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...last professor to receive this honor was McArthur University Professor Robert C. Merton, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics...
...dead still walk together." But Ackroyd missed, as have many others, the very best example. If it were possible to walk with the dead, then who better to take as companions than Thomas à Becket; Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to occupy the papal chair; and Walter de Merton, the founder of Merton College, Oxford? At the site of London's Merton Priory, one can walk with kings, queens, Simon de Montfort, William Morris and even Lord Nelson. Services are still held annually in the Chapter House remains of the marvelous Augustinian Priory, which outshone the 12th century church...
...list of signatories includes two Nobel laureates—Harvard’s McArthur University Professor Robert C. Merton and Stanford emeritus professor William F. Sharpe—as well as two Pulitzer prize winners...
Robert C. Merton, who won the 1997 economics prize for his work on financial derivatives, was the last professor to win a Nobel while at Harvard...
...embraced the world as a social activist--a Catholic anarchist. Merton withdrew from the world to become a monk, memoirist, essayist. O'Connor lived surrounded by her famous peacocks on a farm in Milledgeville, Ga., her body restricted by disease, her imagination ranging with strange originality through a universe of her creation. Percy labored on, exploring the modern self that he considered essentially empty. Elie braids these four distinctive strands into a story, both inspiring and deeply intelligent, in which, as he says, "art, life and religious faith converge." --By Lance Morrow