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Steven Chu, a professor of physics at Stanford University, was in bed last Wednesday morning when he learned that he had become a Nobel laureate...
...colleagues, along with recipients of the five other Nobel prizes awarded over the past two weeks, have become inexorably associated with what is perhaps the best-known prize for contributions in science, the arts and humanitarian work...
...flurry of publicity surrounding this year's batch of Nobel prizes reminded the public of the infamous romantic story of Alfred Nobel's attempt to purify his legacy as the inventor of dynamite by establishing awards for contributions in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, economics, literature and peace...
...mind, the significance [of the Nobel prize] is that because of this rather strange person [Alfred Nobel], you have a small country of eight and a half million people reminding the world every fall that the kind of thing recognized by these prizes is important," said Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach in a phone interview from Oregon last night. Herschbach received the Nobel prize in chemistry...
...great deal of planning goes into ensuring the integrity of the prize and making it an "occasion of note," said Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow, a 1979 Nobel laureate...