Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wald concluded a 35-minute lecture and then announced that he and his family would leave for Stockholm Tuesday evening to accept his Nobel Prize in medicine. He then asked for "six beautiful girls" to help distribute wine and fresh bread "baked by two wonderful Greek ladies" to celebrate the occasion...
...Smale case deserves special attention. Smale, an internationally renowned topologist, traveled to Moscow in 1966 to deliver a major address at the 1966 International Congress of Mathematicians and to receive one of the Fields Medals, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.S In Moscow, Smale, pointing, as he put it, to "a real danger of a new McCarthyism in America," denounced both "American military intervention in Vietnam" as "horrible" as well as what he termed the "brutal intervening" of Russian troops in Hungary in 1956. 'Never," Smale said, "could I see justification for military intervention, 10 years...
...cash and more prestige than any other U.S. medical citation, the Albert Lasker awards have proved to be a reliable lens for focusing international recognition. In the 21 years since Millionaire Adman Lasker founded the annual prize, no fewer than 17 recipients have gone on to receive Nobel awards. The Lasker laurels also honor practical achievement, as well as theoretical research. Of the 1967 winners announced last week in Manhattan, for example, one has virtually eliminated the threat of a killing disease in several Asian nations in the past dozen years; the other has developed key refinements in effective drug...
...science programs. A major objective is to meet the accelerating demand for knowledge and research facilities from increasingly sophisticated science majors, who represent about one quarter of Harvard's undergraduates. "We're teaching freshmen things I didn't learn until I was a graduate student," says Nobel Physics Professor Edward Purcell. The University also wants to beef up its general-education science courses for what Dean Franklin Ford calls the "scientific illiterates,"-meaning the majority of liberal arts majors...
Sharing this year's three-way Nobel Prize for chemistry are German Chemist Manfred Eigen, 40; Ronald G.W. Norrish, 70, professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Cambridge University; and Norrish's onetime student George Porter, 48, now a professor of chemistry. Eigen, Norrish and Porter were honored for their studies of rapid chemical reactions, which date from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Their Nobel-winning research revealed the subtle changes that take place during chemical reactions that last only one-billionth of a second. All three came to their award-winning conclusions by subjecting samples of various...