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...full house gathered in Science Center D yesterday afternoon to hear Nobel prize-winner Robert Huber speak about his research in determining molecular structures...
DIED. GEORGE WALD, 90, politically engaged biologist whose research on how the eye transmits images to the brain earned him a 1967 Nobel Prize; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A proponent of "survival politics," he became an outspoken Vietnam War opponent, arms-race foe and human-rights advocate...
...Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Harvard also boasts such nationally acclaimed critics as Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and Fredric Wertham professor Barbara Johnson. And the university's Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position often held by practicing poets, is presently occupied by recent Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney...
Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, was a fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Insti-the Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University in Georgia...
Soyinka was the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in literature...