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...Bernie Fields was among the foremost virologists of the century," said Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and director of the National Institute of Health...
DIED. ADOLF BUTENANDT, 91, German scientist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his pioneering work on hormones; in Munich. Beginning in 1929, Butenandt isolated a number of previously unknown sex hormones, including progesterone, which maintains pregnancy. The knowledge of hormonal structure gained from this research made possible the development of the birth-control pill. A Nazi law forced Butenandt to decline his Nobel Prize, which he finally received in 1949. After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist...
...party," one Labor official admits. The clandestine poll, unlike far more optimistic recent public surveys, had an unusually large sample size of 10,000 respondents. TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says Laborites expected a popularity bubble after Israel's new peace treaty with Jordan, the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and an optimistic economic outlook. Instead, she says, public opinion is dwelling on drawn-out negotiations with Syria, growing tension with an old ally, Egypt, and failures of the peace process with the PLO While there is still time for Labor...
...know, Darwin could not have won the Nobel prize," he says. "He only worked on concepts. Only about 20 percent of scientists are eligible [for the Nobel]." Mayr jokes that the other 80 percent of scientists gripe about that fact...
Mayr remarks that International Prize in Biology was created in part because the Nobel prize only awards experimental, rather than theoretical, work...