Word: nobels
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Wassily Leontief, a professor who taught at Harvard for 44 years until 1975 and won the 1973 Nobel Prize in economics, died last Saturday...
...analysis of the 1973 Arab oil crisis, which he said would splinter off to affect demand for many other goods became a permanent part of the way countries and businesses all over the world accurately predicted and planned production, according to the Nobel committee...
Thursday, February 4: Nobel Prize winning Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach enters the fray with his own ad campaign entitled "The Zen of Chem." In a radical move, Herschbach allocates half of his NIH grant to double the staff of teaching fellows for Chemistry 7. The teaching fellows are assigned a task they can actually do: postering the kiosks of the Yard...
Appiah, Gates and Soyinka, a Nigerian Nobel laureate in literature, first discussed the project at Cambridge University, where Appiah and Gates were graduate students and Soyinka was a professor. Gates said the trio thought they had as much of a chance of success as they had at winning the lottery...
...biggest and fiercest Marxist guerrilla group--the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC)--the rebels and the government of President Andres Pastrana Arango began the country's third attempt at peace in 17 years. But the fiesta of tropical bands, stuffed pig and beer, attended by luminaries like Colombia's Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, couldn't rise above the jolting absence of the FARC's mysterious 68-year-old chief, Manuel ("Sureshot") Marulanda. He had been expected to attend but instead left Pastrana forlorn at the head of the table and the peace talks in doubt. Marulanda privately told government...