Word: nobelity
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Died. Antônio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, 81, Portuguese neurologist, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949 as the first man to devise an operation for the treatment of mental disorders (the prefrontal lobotomy), Portuguese Foreign Minister from 1918-19; in Lisbon...
...Among the members: Virologist John F. Enders and Physician Thomas H. Weller, who won the Nobel Prize for basic discoveries which made the vaccine possible...
Enders, who with Dr. Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins of Western Reserve won the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing the polio virus, cautioned that there was "nothing permanent" about the decision. Enders added that "everything points to ultimate success for the Salk vaccine...
...battery of prominent Harvard doctors, including Presidential consultant Paul Dudley White '08 and Nobel Prize winner Thomas H. Weller, will present important papers at the annual clinical convention of the American Medical Association, which starts this morning in Boston...
...White, a former faculty member of the Medical School, will be one of the convention's featured attractions on Friday when he delivers a paper on "The Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases." Dr. Weller, who is Strong Professor at the School of Public Health and shared in the Nobel Prize last year for his work on the polio virus, will present the results of his study on "Enteric Viruses" at the conference. More than a score of other doctors from the Schools of Medicine and Public Health will deliver papers at the convention on topics ranging from "The Cause and Prevention...