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...Crafoord prize, named after the inventor of the artificial kidney, is awarded by the same academy that awards the Nobel prizes...
Since there is no Nobel category for work in geophysics, the Crafoord prize is one of the most prestigious in the field...
...Myanmar Year" in late 1996. The military junta of Burma--now officially known as Myanmar--hit upon a way to exploit further the country it has controlled since 1962: Western tourism. This government rules despite a popular election in 1990 in which the National League for Democracy, headed by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung Sun Suu Kyi, won 82 percent of the seats in the national assembly...
...years ago, when National Institutes of Health director and Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus was picked to be Harvard's commencement speaker, many members of the Class of 1996 asked why their speaker couldn't be someone better known, like Vaclav Havel, the 1995 speaker, or Al Gore '69, who spoke...
...instance, Biogen, currently the world's sixth largest biotechnology company, was founded by a group of scientists that included Loeb University Professor and Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert and Nobel laureate and MIT Professor Phillip Sharp...