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...annual award is considered the American equivalent of the Nobel Prize...
...Nobel laureate Brian Josephson was incensed. He had just read a column by physicist Robert Park poking fun at the work of a French biologist who maintains that the benefits of homeopathic medicine can be transmitted electronically. Josephson, who since winning the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics has developed an interest in fringe sciences, fired off an e-mail challenge to Park, who promptly responded. Their exchange could lead to the first rigorous test of one of the world's most widely practiced alternative therapies...
...When demand exceeds supply for ordinary goods, the price is raised to suppliers in order to induce them to increase the quantities provided," counsels an article by economist and Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker, and the same kind of incentives "would induce more people to allow their organs to be used for transplants after they die." Perhaps state officials read Becker's article before establishing the new policy, which informs the eligible families upon the death of their relatives if they are potential donors. Bereaved families could get to open the mail and read "You may have already...
George M. Whitesides'60, Mallinckrodt professor of chemistry, and Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson received the national Medal of Science, an award often called the American equivalent of the Nobel Prize...
...very surprised if he didn't end up withthe Nobel Prize," Jorgenson said. "This certainlyimproves the odds...