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Counter was denied tenure in 1980, and moved tothe Medical School, where he still holds anassistant professorship. He travels to theKarolinska, Nobel Institute in Sweden every summerto do clinical research in a quite setting...
Seitz said he first "suggested the idea of making diamond crystals out of just one kind of atom and thus improving heat conduction" in 1972, while working as a research associate with Nobel prize-winning Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen at Harvard's Gordon McKay Laboratory...
David Baltimore, the Nobel Laureate who oversaw the research team that O"Toole was involved with, resigned his post last year as president of Rockefeller University, saying that the controversy that surrounded him after the scandal made it difficult...
...Foundation guests as United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, author James Baldwin, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, Governor of Puerto Rico Raphael Hernandez-Colon, National Science Foundation Head Walter Massey, Northern Ireland leader John Hume, Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, scholar-athlete Arthur Ashe (to name a few), to panel discussions, films and debates on every conceivable aspect of race relations...
...just this whiff of quackery that made vitamins a research backwater for years. Most reputable scientists steered clear, viewing the field as fringe medicine awash with kooks and fanatics. A researcher who showed interest could lose respect and funding. Certainly Linus Pauling lost much of his Nobel-laureate luster when he began championing vitamin C back in 1970 as a panacea for everything from the common cold to cancer. Drug companies too have been leery of committing substantial energy and money to studies, since the payoff is relatively small: vitamin chemical formulas are in the public domain and cannot...