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...fell in love with another doctor. She became pregnant and had a daughter. Natalya Evdokimova is now 50, and she became a doctor too. She went through a particularly difficult experience in the waning years of Soviet power. In 1984 she was assigned as the personal physician to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov. He and his wife Yelena Bonner were closely watched by the secret police. "[KGB agents] tried to accuse us of diagnosing Sakharov's condition as being more serious than it really was, or of trying to give him information and news...
...past four years, a fringe group of scientists, including a former Medical School professor and a Nobel laureate, have been challenging the veracity of this basic supposition...
Schreiber also says he is puzzled by the fact that Kary Mullis, the 1993 Nobel laureate in chemistry, is a member of the group. Schreiber says he suspects Mullis associates himself with the group to garner media attention...
Herschbach, a professor of chemistry at Harvard since 1963, shared the Nobel Prize in 1986 with John Polanyi and Yuan Lee for their study of chemical reactions using molecular beams...
...special, filmed on location, takes Herschbach to a suburb of Stockholm to visit the home and recount the achievements of chemist Alfred Nobel, who developed nitroglycerine, the active ingredient in dynamite...