Word: nobels
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Compelled to Reconsider. Soviet physicians are justifiably proud that they brought Landau, the year's Nobel laureate in physics (TIME, Nov. 9), back to life. Landau's brain had been starved of blood and oxygen for more than 100 days. "It was held previously," says Director Boris Yegorov of Moscow's Institute of Neurosurgery, "that oxygen deficiency of the brain cells inevitably led to their destruction. The Landau case compels us to reconsider the whole of accumulated medical experience. It has overthrown all existing theories." Neurologists outside Russia would not go as far as that. What...
...Vizier's Elephant and Devil's Yard, by Ivo Andric. In four short novels a Yugoslav Nobel prizewinner treats with some new and old varieties of human tyranny...
Bohr's atomic model answered dozens of questions that had the physicists of the time chewing their pencil stubs. It won him a Nobel Prize, but it, too, had faults which were gradually corrected by mathematical abstractions that seemed to grow more and more bizarre. Bohr himself did much of the correcting, and even the most recent concepts of atomic structure reflect his genius for inventive analysis...
...says nobody is qualified to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace for this year ? After his retreat from Cuba, Khrushchev certainly deserves it, and if given to him, he might even start living up to his new reputation...
...Halldor Laxness' life has been a search for an earthly paradise. He has sought it in a monastery in Luxembourg, among surrealists in Paris, in the Communist Party. His novels have faithfully reflected the current state of his search. Independent People, for instance, which won him the 1955 Nobel Prize, deals with Icelandic freeholders battling capitalist landowners. In his latest novel, Laxness, now 60, takes a tranquil, detached look at man's age-old quest for paradise and in delicately laced, gently ironic prose shows how elusive paradise...