Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the Nobel Peace Prize Commitee in Oslo announced last year that it would give no award for 1976, Norwegians were prepared. An alliance of newspapers and civic groups had already begun a campaign for a "People's Peace Prize," which eventually collected $324,000 in donations. The sum was awarded to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, the Roman Catholic "peace women" of Belfast (TIME, Dec. 13) who had stirred the world with their pleas for an end to sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland...
...Nobel Committee had not overlooked the women; their campaign had not begun until August 1976, six months after the deadline for nominations. Last week the committee acknowledged that popular opinion had settled on the right candidates. Corrigan, 33, and Williams, 34, were named winners of last year's Peace Prize. Simultaneously, the 1977 award was given to Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization dedicated to freeing political prisoners and ending the use of torture around the world. The cash that goes with each prize...
Ebert offered examples of the varied directions of his own medical career. In the '40s he worked with Dr, Paul Flory, the scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work on penicillin. Ebert added that after World War II, he was stationed as a medical officer with the troops occupying Nagasaki, Japan after the atomic bomb was dropped there. "I learned first-hand of the horrors of war," he said...
...SELECTION last week of Amnesty International as the recipient of the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize marked a welcome recognition of the London-based organization's dedicated efforts on behalf of political prisoners the world over. In its 16-year existence, Amnesty International has helped bring the issue of human rights to the fore in international diplomacy; more concretely, in the past seven years it has mounted major publicity and letter-writing campaigns on behalf of more than 15,000 political prisoners, and has succeeded in securing the release of over half of them...
...Physics Department hosted a reception for Van Vleck. Nobel laureates William N. Lipscomb, professor of Chemistry, and Edward M. Pureell, Gade Professor of Physics, joined in toasting their colleague...