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...12th annual Ig Nobel Prize awards ceremony honored those whose dubious achievements “could not or should not be reproduced” in a chaotic blend of great minds, modest irreverence and outrageousness...
...company of three Nobel laureates, they also lauded a man who invented a washing machine for dogs and cats and another who authored the scholarly report “Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture.” As paper airplanes deluged the stage, a silver-painted man wearing only glasses and his underwear wandered around holding a flashlight over his head...
Over the weekend, about 150 scientists—including former students, colleagues and Nobel laureates—gathered in the Science Center to celebrate the career and work of Dudley R. Herschbach...
Herschbach, who is Baird research professor of science and turned 70 this summer, shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on elementary chemical processes. He is probably best known as the charismatic former professor of Chemistry 10, which he said was his “most satisfying and difficult assignment...
...concern, his care for his students, has brought out good things in everybody,” said Yuan Lee of UC-Berkeley, who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize with Herschbach...