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...laboratory.Since the landmark experiment that deciphered codons of the standard genetic code, Leder has also made breakthrough contributions to oncology, including the creation and patenting of OncoMouse, a genetically modified mouse designed for cancer research. “His early work helped him establish himself,” said Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Philip A. Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leder’s research eventually focused on cloning and efforts to isolate genes and describe their structure and sequence, Sharp says. Leder counts among his researchers current Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman...
Kenneth G. Wilson ’56 was part of the generation of scientists who revolutionized physics in the 1970s and confirmed the quantum theories of physicists from the early 20th century including Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein.Wilson won the 1982 Nobel Prize in physics for his development of the Renormalization Group (RG) into a central tool in physics.Wilson’s father, E. Bright Wilson Jr. was a professor of chemistry at Harvard. As an undergraduate, Wilson concentrated in mathematics, though he also studied physics. He won the prestigious Putnam fellowship, awarded to high scorers on a national...
...DETENTION EXTENDED. For Aung San Suu Kyi, 60, Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has spent 10 of the last 17 years under incarceration; in Rangoon. Despite calls from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for Burma's military leaders "to do the right thing," the junta declined to release Suu Kyi on May 27, when her term of house arrest was set to expire...
...Nobel Peace Prize winner and women’s rights activist Shirin Ebadi spoke at a Harvard Book Store sponsored event yesterday, arguing Americans and Iranians “have no differences” despite sour relations between their governments, and that political change in Iran must first occur internally. “It is upon us Iranians to resolve these issues. It is not the job of foreign soldiers,” Ebadi said, speaking through an interpreter before a crowd of nearly 200 at the First Parish Church. Ebadi, an Iranian who is also a lawyer...
...this time that another resident of the facility called over to the two. “Hey, have you told this young lady about your prize?” Little did Wong know that she had been chatting with a Nobel Laureate in medicine...