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...When Henderson herself invited Brandt back to Chapel Hill to give another lecture this fall, she compared his arrival on campus to a “rockstar event,” making the talk—which had been delivered in the past by several Nobel prize winners—the best-attended ever, she said...
...Wald, who passed away in 1997 at age 90, won his Nobel for discovering how vitamin A works on the molecular level to allow people to see. “Now today, we have therapies to help people who are blind,” said Wald’s former colleague, biology professor John E. Dowling...
...Upon winning the Nobel, Wald used his fame as a platform to advance his stance against the Vietnam...
...When Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize...
...diamond prospector, a tapeworm, and Edward Said have in common? They each figure as a central character in one of the first three stories of “Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black,” the newest collection of short fiction from prolific octogenarian author and Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. The motley assembly of characters is only one aspect of the absence of internal logic that characterizes Gordimer’s most recent collection, an amalgam of 13 stories that previously appeared in periodicals ranging from “The New Yorker” to “Playboy...