Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University of California at Berkeley WILLIAM FRANCIS GIAUGUE, Nobel prizewinner in chemistry LL.D...
...University also awarded degrees to George F. Kennan, the historian of Soviet foreign policy and Ambassador to Yugoslavia: Sir Maurice Bowra, the great classical scholar and critic (Doctor of Letters) and to the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Alexander Todd, Baron Trumpington (Doctor of Science...
...achievement that earned Lord Trumpington the Nobel Prize in 1957 was his work on organic phosphates, and in particular his synthesis...
...spur "the kind of thinking that wins Nobel Prizes," as Provost Levi puts it, Beadle set up a faculty-raiding "independence fund" that now stands at $3,500,000. While easing out many mediocre men, Beadle in 18 months has increased the faculty from 800 to 930. This year Chief Headhunter Levi has a rich catch, from Yale Historian Leonard Krieger to Michigan Law Professor Frank Allen and Negro Historian John Hope Franklin of Brooklyn College. Vows Levi grimly: "We are going to take the best men we can find, although we will probably raise faculty salaries across the country...
...made a career on the fringes of broadcasting before he got the idea for the festival. Now he spends nine months a year accepting entries and entry fees, thinking up new categories for new winners, and creating the general aura that he is the next best thing to the Nobel Prize Committee. Taking his favorite U.S. commercials with him, he travels in Europe for an additional month each fall, collecting service fees from Old World admen who want to study U.S. techniques. The other two months are free and clear...