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People in the 21st century will wear their telephones like jewelry, with microphones hidden in necklaces or lapel pins and miniature speakers tucked behind each ear, predicts Nobelist Penzias, vice president of research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Every phone customer will have long since been issued a personal number that follows him everywhere -- home, the office, the beach. Thanks to a telecommunications system that will link phone networks, cable-TV systems, satellite broadcasts and multimedia libraries, getting connected to anything or anyone in the most remote parts of the world will be a simple matter. This easy access will...
...itself by discovering that DNA -- the genetic material found in virtually every living cell -- was arranged in the long, twisting strands of a double helix. Watson, 60, is once again playing a key role in an audacious genetic adventure. This week the National Institutes of Health announced that the Nobelist will lead the agency in one of the most mammoth scientific endeavors ever: mapping and analyzing all the genetic material -- the genome -- contained in human cells. Marvels Watson, who will continue as director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York: "Thirty years ago my dream was we'd know...
...Currently, NIH and DOE are hammering out a memo of understanding that will lay out how the two agencies will work together. Watson's appointment is certain to erase any lingering fears among bioscientists; his presence ensures that NIH will not take a backseat to any other agency. Says Nobelist David Baltimore, director of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute and once an outspoken critic of the federal genome project: "I'm convinced that with Watson as a guiding force, there will be a balance between science and technology...
Hauptman and Karle first met at City College of New York, from which they graduated in 1937 (the same class that spawned Arthur Kornberg, the medicine Nobelist for l959). Both of this year's winners are compulsive about science, but Hauptman, at least, squeezes out some time for such outside pursuits as creating patterns for stained glass. The difference in their temperaments is perhaps best revealed by the way each learned about his award. Hauptman, married to a schoolteacher and father of two daughters, had just finished his daily hour of swimming at a YMCA pool. Karle, whose three daughters...
...soft-spoken Texan, Merrifield is a graduate of UCLA and the 19th Nobelist to be associated with Rockefeller. He is the father of six children and for a while was the leader of a Boy Scout troop. When not at the lab, he spends his time happily tinkering around his house in Cresskill...