Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand engineering," recalls Caltech's Professor Murray Gell-Mann, the former child prodigy, "so I put down the closest thing, physics." It was a happy choice. Last week, for his brilliant work on the basic nature of the atom, Gell-Mann, now 40, won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics...
Derek H. R. Barton, the English cowinner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, developed many of his important concepts in 1950-51. when he was a visiting professor at Harvard...
Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, emeritus, said yesterday, "During his year here, Barton developed his initial concept of conformational analysis, for which he has received the Nobel Prize...
Barton's research involved the bonding of atoms in cyclohexane-molecules whose basis is a ring of six carbon atoms. Odd Hassel, the Norwegian chemist with whom Barton shares the Nobel Prize, discovered that the carbon rings formed two types of bonds. Barton explained the occurrence and behavior of both types...
Harvard and M.I.T. chemistry professors yesterday expressed their approval of the Nobel Prize award. Paul D. Barllett, Erving Professor of Chemistry said, "I'm delighted to see it. It falls clearly in the class of giving the prize for a fundamental clarifying idea: this is very important for the development of chemistry...