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...star members of the Afro-American studies department and a Nobel Prize-winning economist have been named University professors, Harvard's most prestigious Faculty post...
President Neil L. Rudenstine named Robert C. Merton, the Harvard Business School (HBS) professor who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, as the first John and Natty McArthur University Professor. Cornel West '74, famed author and philosopher, will hold the first Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professorship. And William Julius Wilson, a theorist on urban problem who has served as an unofficial adviser to President Clinton, was named Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor...
Pulitzer Prizes are awarded to James Michener's novel, Tales of the South Pacific, for fiction, Margaret Clapp for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Bernard De Voto for his historical work, Across the Wide Missouri. The Nobel Prize for Literature went to T.S. Eliot '10, well-known for his poetry collections, including The Waste Land (1922) and Ash Wednesday...
...division as well as in cancer. So disrupting them could cause harm. "Whether the therapy is going to be a major advance, a modest improvement or a disappointment is not clear," says Dr. J. Michael Bishop, molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who shared a 1989 Nobel Prize with Dr. Harold Varmus for their pioneering work on oncogenes. But Bishop is impressed that the field is moving so swiftly, and most researchers are convinced that they are at least on the right track. Says Joseph Schlessinger, a New York University scientist who helped develop SU101: "Early...
...often do their jobs too well. "Mice distort or exaggerate what you see in humans," says tumor biologist Robert Kerbel of Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Science Centre. Mouse tumors, which are usually planted just under the skin, grow much more rapidly than deep-seated human tumors. Also, as Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop observes, too much breeding isn't always a good thing. In his labs at the University of California, San Francisco, he is genetically altering mice to provide better models for studying leukemia and neuroblastoma, the most common tumor in children under 3. But genetic alterations...