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PUGWASH First Canadian fishing village in history to lend its name to a Nobel Peace Prize winner...
...PERPLEXED LAYMEN, THE CELEbrated Nobel Prizes often seem to point down obscure pathways of science, focusing on narrow, highly specialized research that few nonscientists can understand or appreciate. Not this year. The $1 million 1995 prizes in physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine or physiology, announced in Stockholm last week, went to scientists who have wrestled with questions at once basic and easily grasped: What is the universe made of? How does DNA create complex life-forms? What made the hole in the ozone layer? And how do people decide how they spend and invest their money...
...discovery of what the Nobel citation called one of "nature's most remarkable subatomic particles" tied up an important theoretical loose end and spawned a new field of neutrino physics. But by the early 1970s, it was also clear that the neutrino was only one element in an elegant organizational scheme, now known as the Standard Model, by which nature groups the subatomic particles...
PEOPLE SUPPOSEDLY IN THE KNOW have been saying for years that Irish poet Seamus Heaney would one day win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Of course, people said the same thing about Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Graham Greene, illustrious authors and notorious nonwinners. Against that background, the Swedish Academy's selection of Heaney, announced last week, qualifies as something of a surprise: the laurel went to someone widely seen as deserving...
Joseph Rotblat, the Polish-born physicist who quit the Manhattan Project in protest and founded a worldwide anti-nuclear movement, was awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace prize Friday morning. "I see this honor not for me personally but rather for the small group of scientists who have been working for 40 years to try to save the world, often against the world's wish," the 87-year old British activist told reporters in London. The Nobel committee also cited the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the disarmament group Rotblat helped found in 1955 as part of an effort...