Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Endless honors have already testified to the scientific achievement of those hectic days, and modest Dr. Wigner has received a valuable share-the Enrico Fermi Award ($50,000), half of the Atoms for Peace award ($75,000). Last week he got his highest accolade: half of the Nobel Prize in physics...
...poems, said the committee, had "unique thought and style and beauty of language." And so last week, Giorgos Seferiades (pen name: George Seferis), 63, became the first Greek to win the $51,000 Nobel Prize for literature. A diplomat (until last year Ambassador to Britain) as well as a poet for more than 30 years, his eyes filled with tears as he called the award an honor for Greece "for which so many generations have struggled, striving to maintain what is still alive in its long tradition." Indeed, it was true, as in Seferiades' Memory II, of two friends...
Last week, Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute played it both ways and decided to award the 1963 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine (worth $51,000) to two wets...
...Linus Pauling, 62, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and promptly began lending his new fame to all manner of peace schemes. His biggest broadsides were blurted at nuclear testing and fallout, which, he said, endangered "our yet unborn children." Some found his talk woolly; others found it wonderful. Last week the Norwegian Nobel committee, which never discusses its deliberations, named him winner of the $51,000 1962 Peace Prize.* The award did not stay the critics. Norway's conservative Morgenbladet called it a "slap in the face" to such responsible test ban proponents as Macmillan and Kennedy...
...Making him the first person ever to win two entire Nobel Prizes. Radium Co-Discoverer Marie Curie won one in 1911 for chemistry, earlier shared one in 1903 for physics...