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...dramatic scene of anger and hatred last week involved Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Tutu and a fellow Anglican bishop had gone to Duduza, a black township 30 miles east of Johannesburg, to officiate at the funerals of four young men who had accidentally blown themselves up with explosives. As the two churchmen left the cemetery after the burial, they were confronted by a mob attempting to kill a black man whom they suspected of being a police spy. The crowd had seized him, set his car afire and was trying to hurl him into...
DIED. Simon Kuznets, 84, Ukrainian-born economist, statistician and professor emeritus at Harvard, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for his development in the 1930s of the first sophisticated system for measuring the gross national product, the now indispensable means for gauging comparative economic activity and income distribution by computing the total value of each nation's goods and services; in Cambridge, Mass...
...those days there were only a handful of places in the whole country that knew anything about nuclear energy--nuclear physics. It was just in '38 that Enrico Fermi got the Nobel Prize for his work with neutrons, so it was all really brand new. What happened was that the heads of the few places--Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley, Arthur Compton at Chicago, John Dunning at Columbia--they contacted all their former graduates and said, 'Come on back.' They were told that if they knew any semiliterate undergraduates, bring 'em too. It's for the war. So my professor...
...came to this wonderful world," said Nobel Prizewinner I.I. Rabi in a speech at Los Alamos a few years ago when the alumni reconvened. Rabi's speech was double-edged. Titled "How Well We Meant," it both recalled the necessity of nuclear weapons and lamented their subsequent expansion. But in the beginning "it happened to be one of those spring days where everything was lovely. The air was clear and mild, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains were distinct and sharp, the mesa on the other side--lovely! And the ride up on the old road, somewhat hair raising but very...
DIED. Heinrich Böll, 67, Nobel-prize-winning (1972) West German author whose gentle but relentless attacks on tyranny of all kinds informed the short stories, essays and 18 novels that brought him acclaim and popularity in the East bloc as well as the West and provided unfailing moral guideposts for his countrymen; of complications of arteriosclerosis; in Hürtgenwald, West Germany. Brought up in a deeply religious Roman Catholic family resistant to Nazism, he served six years as a Wehrmacht conscript on both fronts. He emerged as a pacifist and foe of all establishments, governmental, religious and bureaucratic...