Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are the most prestigious prizes in the world. Besides a hefty stipend (now $190,000) and a gold medal, they bring instant fame, flooding winners with speaking invitations, job offers, book contracts and honorary degrees. So heady is the honor that Physicist Tsung Dao Lee, who became a Nobel laureate at the precocious age of 31, wondered what he could do for the rest of his life. Indeed, as the time of the announcements approaches each fall, many contenders are so afflicted with Nobel fever they literally jump whenever their telephones ring...
...vital respect, this year's winning roster was similar to those of previous years: it had, overall, a distinctly American cast. Continuing their domination of the Nobel science prizes, Americans took two out of three of the physics awards, and one each of the twin medicine, chemistry and economics honors...
...selection of the 1979 winners divided the house of Sweden's Karolinska Institute. The 15-member Nobel Selection Committee had sifted through nominees and sent a name or names to the full 54-member Nobel Assembly, but that choice was overturned after a lengthy debate. Though no rejected names were divulged, the schism was apparently an ideological one: some institute members insisted that winners be confined to scientists engaged in basic research, while others felt that achievements in medical technology should also be considered. The choice of the CAT-scanner pioneers seemed a perfect compromise. Their work with abstract...
...density of the tissue. Since then, widespread use of the scanner has drawn critics who argue that the machine's hefty price-up to $700,000 and more-drives up the cost of medical care at hospitals that could get by with cheaper methods. But the Nobel Committee declared: "No other method within X-ray diagnostics has led to such remarkable success in such a short time...
...skeptic who contemplates Mailer's labors in orchestrating all these interviews is tempted to think that he deserves the Nobel Prize for Typing. But Mailer does not work stupidly; the flat, banal voices mustered here soon become haunting. The book is like an immense issue of the National Enquirer being endlessly explicated until it is forced to yield some truth. Gilmore's story is a sort of immense white-trash saga; he accomplishes his victory even in death by calling down all kinds of electronic gods to attend: photographers, wire services, television networks, and at last even...