Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that discovery, made in 1964, Arno Penzias, 45, and Robert Wilson, 42, last week won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics, sharing half of the $165,000 award. The other half of the prize went to a Russian, Peter Kapitsa, 84, for his work in low-temperature physics. Also awarded last week was the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, given to British Biochemist Peter Mitchell, 58, for elucidating energy-producing processes in living cells...
...week, Mitchell held another distinction. With the Peace Prize still to be announced, his Nobel was the only one presented this year that U.S. citizens did not either share in or win outright. In recent years, Americans have dominated the ranks of newly elected Nobel laureates. In 1978 the U.S. is continuing this streak, with six Americans among the nine winners...
...five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said they gave the award to recognize the achievements of Sadat and Begin at Camp David, and to encourage further success in Middle East peace talks...
...Former Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger '50 praised Sadat and Begin for their efforts to bring peace to the Mideast. "By their courage they have demonstrated the moral fact that the greatest triumph of peoples lies not in their victories over other nations, but in the reconciliations," Kissinger said in a statement early yesterday...
...would have elected candidates trying to create a peace within the Nobel Peace Prize stipulations of 'Peace and Justice',' Chomsky added...