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...three Lasker Awards—known informally as the “American Nobel Prizes,” because 75 laureates have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine—will be presented at a ceremony featuring New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as the keynote speaker on Sept. 26. The prize in each category...
...celebrated author, his series of novels—including his most renowned, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”—meticulously documented the monstrous crimes of Stalin’s regime and eventually won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The effusive stream of eulogies that poured in from across the world and the political spectrum might lead us to think that Solzhenitsyn ranks with George Orwell as one of the century’s literary saints—a valiant crusader against thuggish, inhuman totalitarianism. But Solzhenitsyn?...
...Sept. 11 story, "City May Donate to Shady Hill Effort" misstated the field of Simon Kuznets. Kuznets was not a poet, but a Nobel Prize winning economist...
...feeding your children that Happy Meal - aside from the fat, the calories and that voice in your head asking why you can't be bothered to actually cook a well-balanced meal now and then? Rajendra Pachauri would like to offer you one. The head of the U.N.'s Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pachauri on Monday urged people around the world to cut back on meat in order to combat climate change. "Give up meat for one day [per week] at least initially, and decrease it from there," Pachauri told Britain's Observer newspaper. "In terms...
Weller received the 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine with two of his Harvard colleagues—John P. Enders, Weller’s former professor at the Medical School, and Frederick C. Robbins—for their research on polio. The researchers reported successfully cultivating poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube for the first time in 1949, using tissue taken from a monkey. (Enders died in 1985, Robbins...