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...jockeying for resources, but that's not why people mutilate themselves or jump from bridges. Edward Kim Fullerton, California, U.S. African Heroine I read with interest the Time 100 list of influential people [April 18]. Thank you for including Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Member of Parliament who won the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the environmentalist Green Belt Movement in her country. As your story noted, it is not easy being green in the developing world. The showcasing of Maathai along with several other achievers from Africa will continue to inform the world that even though the political and economic...
...Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow ’44-’47—an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT— who taught Bernanke, says his independent thinking stood...
...have the patience to doggedly pursue one single topic. “As a result, it was frequently he who opened the door through which others then walked to make major discoveries,” the authors write. Unlike several of his friends, Oppenheimer never won the Nobel Prize...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the 50th anniversary of his death. Both events are being commemorated by a bid to spark fresh interest in the Nobel-prizewinning physicist, who was named Time magazine's Person of the Century in December 1999. "Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist, but also a lateral thinker, pacifist, cosmopolite and visionary," says Gerd Weiberg, head of Germany's Einstein Year celebrations. Here are some highlights of Einstein-related happenings around Europe: Einstein, who was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, in 1879, lived...
...past two years, the lecture has been cancelled twice. Last year’s speaker for the spring lecture, 2003 Nobel laureate John M. Coetzee, cancelled due to personal reasons. Two years ago, the department withdrew an invitation to fall speaker Tom Paulin after the poet’s alleged anti-Israel comments caused controversy on campus...