Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graduate student at the University of Cambridge, Gates said he met now-Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah and future Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka...
...past we have had the President, the Vice President, Nobel Prize winners, the Secretary General [of the United Nations]-and this year we get two guys who own a gas station," one senior told the Tech...
Three years ago, Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, was announced as the principal speaker at Harvard's 345th Commencement. After asking "Harold who?," spoiled Harvard students, accustomed to being addressed by heads of state and Nobel laureates, questioned the selection of a bio medical researcher as the featured guest at their graduation. Poor Dr. Varmus was ridiculed in campus publications; his likeness even made a regular appearance in a student comic strip in this newspaper...
DIED. MICHAEL ARIS, 53, husband of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading dissident of Myanmar, formerly Burma; of prostate cancer; in Oxford. Myanmar's military junta refused to allow the dying Aris to visit his wife, whom he had not seen since 1995. Fearful the junta would bar her return, she chose not to leave her country...
...Marie Curie shares the Nobel Prize for Physics with Henri Becquerel and her husband Pierre for their discovery of radioactivity; she will win a second Nobel, for Chemistry, in 1911, for isolating the radioactive element radium...