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...special, set to air May 5 at 9 p.m., focuses on the progress achieved by chemists. In the program, Herschbach highlights the accomplishments of Robert Burns Woodward, a former Harvard chemistry professor and Nobel laureate...
...part of an ongoing campaign to promote the public appreciation and understanding of science, Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach recently hosted a PBS program, one of the three episodes of the science special, "The Nobel Legacy...
...wouldn't call him just another CEO," addsHerschbach, a Nobel laureate in chemistry...
...They chose to deal with the Nobel Prize winners...not with the city council or the people of Cambridge," Nelson said...
...system fall into this trap? Primarily, says Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman, because it was "designed for a world that no longer exists." In 1935--or even in January 1940, when the first checks were mailed--the U.S. was a much smaller, poorer country, still ravaged by the Great Depression that struck with special savagery at the old. Those people lucky enough to have jobs were overwhelmingly male. Even more important, the world had yet to hear of organ transplants and the manifold other wonders of modern medicine. Once they were available, along with the better nutrition and sanitation that...