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...course of his service, Richardson has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times and has been given the Aztec Eagle Award from the Mexican government, the highest honor Mexico bestows on a foreigner...
...pessimism that came after, great art became hard to come by. That was when people started telling us that "greatness" in art is a subjective business, culturally constructed and so forth, and this neat device let them pretend that (save me your howls of anguish) Toni Morrison deserves a Nobel Prize in literature, or that Jackson Pollock's paint-spattered canvases are 20th century versions of the Mona Lisa, or that Elton John deserves a knighthood...
...namesake of the Chandra observatory--Subrahmanyan Chandrasekharan, an Indian astronomer who won the Nobel Prize in 1983 for his work on the evolution of stars--also studied black holes...
...since he won the 1989 Nobel Prize for his discovery of cancer-causing genes, Varmus--now the head Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital--has become an increasingly prominent figure in the scientific world...
After Columbia, Varmus bounced around different research jobs for a couple of years before landing in J. Michael Bishop's lab at the University of California at San Francisco in 1969. It was their collaborative work on the genetic basis of cancer that led to the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. (Bishop, who is now a Harvard Overseer, declined through his spokesperson to comment on a potential conflict of interest in voting to confirm his closest collaborator, which would happen if the Harvard Corporation recommended Varmus for the presidency...