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With last week’s announcement that Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi had taken home the Nobel Peace Prize, the 2003 Nobel season came to a close. And for the sixth consecutive year, Harvard professors stayed home empty-handed, absent from the ranks of those who “shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind...
Robert C. Merton, who won the 1997 economics prize for his work on financial derivatives, was the last professor to win a Nobel while at Harvard...
...Chemistry Laureate and Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach urged nervous Nobel counters to take the long view...
Kavulla’s suggestion is also particularly ridiculous when one considers that Institute alumni have reached the top of a huge variety of fields. While MIT is justly proud of its fifteen sons and daughters who are now Nobel Laureates, I doubt even Kavulla himself would say that William R. Hewlett MIT SM ’36 (of Hewlett Packard Co.), Benjamin Netanyahu, MIT Class of 1975 (former Israeli Prime Minister), I.M. Pei, MIT Class of 1940 (architect of Boston’s John Hancock Tower among other things), and Tom and Ray Magliozzi, of MIT Classes...
...academy, which dates back to the Revolutionary War era, honored the accomplishments of its 189 new fellows and 29 foreign honorary members in the humanities, sciences, law, medicine, business, and the arts. Members of the class of 2003 included four Nobel prize and four Pulitzer prize winners...