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Nudes were her typicalsubjects, but in 1953, when painter Odile Crick was asked by her husband Francis Crick to illustrate the Nobel-winning discovery he made with James Watson--the structure of DNA--she agreed to pitch in. Her work, the double helix with two spiraling chains of DNA, became an iconic global scientific symbol...
...contributions toward renewing US-China ties, and his personal relationships with Mao and Zhou mark him with greatness by association. Add to this the Chinese worship of academic achievement. The year I studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, I was shocked by reaction to a lecture by a Nobel Prize-winning economist; the overflow crowd stampeded the podium afterwards, jostling for photos and autographs. When Steven Hawking appeared at Beijing's Great Hall of the People last summer, crazed fans rushed the stage. I know young women who get weak-kneed at the mention of Albert Einstein...
...chances may be boosted by the fact that Nobel Peace Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta, a Gusmão ally, fended off the Fretilin candidate to assume the post of President...
...Nobel Prize winner, a movie producer, and an astronaut are among the five newest members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers...
...professor at MIT since 1975, Schrock, who earned his Ph.D from Harvard in 1972, received the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on “the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis,” according to the Nobel Prize website...