Word: nobels
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...Translator Sir: Yasunari Kawabata's award of the Nobel Prize for literature [Oct. 25] could not be more deserving. His Snow Country is a book to read, reread and to treasure. But it can be read only in English by most of us, and I strongly suspect that the beautiful translation by Edward G. Seidensticker, which makes this possible, may have played a large part in attracting the attention of the panel. Your excellent article is lacking only in that it does not quote from his introduction to Snow Country: "In Snow Country we come upon the roaring silence...
Researcher Andrea Svedberg comes from a family of varied talents. Her grandfather won the 1926 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Her grandmother, a retired medical doctor in Stockholm, won the International Stalin Peace Prize...
...images scattered through his narratives link together to produce deep, sudden insight into the souls of his characters - and of Japan. Until last week, however, Yasunari Kawabata was all but unknown in the West. Then, to the surprise of many, he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize for literature for his contributions, as the citation put it, to the "spiritual bridge spanning between East and West...
...triumphs has been the discovery of the method by which the genes transmit and translate the message of heredity. Last week, for their ingenious work in breaking the genetic code, U.S. Molecular Biologists Marshall Nirenberg, 41, Har Gobind Khorana, 46, and Robert Holley, 46, were jointly awarded the 1968 Nobel prize for physiology and medicine...
Long before the three new Nobel laureates began their experiments, scientists had learned that the message of heredity is carried by large molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the chromosomes. Researchers had deduced that somehow DNA directs the cells to assemble amino acids into the proteins that form the basic structural material of all living beings and impart their characteristics. Then, in 1953, James Watson (author of The Double Helix] and Francis Crick put together more of the puzzle; they discovered that DNA consists of twin helices that are held together by regularly spaced links similar to the stairs...