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Monterey, Calif. When President Kennedy hosted a state dinner for U.S. Nobel laureates, he commented that it was the greatest collection of intellect at the White House since Thomas Jefferson dined there by himself. You got that same heady feeling when a galaxy of scientists, academics, artists and business innovators gathered here Wednesday for the start of a three-day summit, hosted by TIME, to sip chardonnay and mull over the future of life. As one might expect from such a powerhouse crowd pondering so cosmic a theme, there were fireworks from the outset as participants debated stem cell research...
...retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared a Nobel with Watson and Crick. As for the pairing of their names, Watson said that he got the first position when they sent off their paper to Nature as a result of the toss of a coin. Anyway, he said, ?I think I should have been first.? Nonetheless, skeptical colleagues in Cambridge...
Spengler shares the award with Mario J. Molina, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the effects of chlorophorocarbons on the earth’s stratosphere...
...democracy in military-ruled Burma; in Rangoon. It is the first time that the full $1 million has been granted to a single person. Freedom Forum officials who visited Suu Kyi said they could transfer the money to her, but did not explain how. Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, was released last May after 19 months of house arrest...
Although he did not graduate from college, he is said to have strong intellectual passions, which have led him to cultivate friendships with Nobel-prize winners and presidents alike...