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Born and raised in San Francisco, Kirschner concentrated in English and American Literature as an undergraduate. His creative-writing thesis, Phantoms: a Novel, won the Hoopes Prize??an annual prize given out for the best senior theses...
...have collected books almost my whole life, and the project itself seemed like a fun thing to do. Plus, I thought I had a fair chance of winning a prize?? he says...
...hard to imagine that Beck, the moody perfectionist who is used to conducting his own cut-and-paste band, may have felt a bit jarred by the Lips’ blend of eclecticism. Coyne’s line in the fantastic opener “Race for the Prize?? may have had some unintended significance: “Two scientists are racing for the good of all mankind / Both of them side by side.” If the concert had been a contest of spirit, the results are clear: Beck would be the loser, baby...
...Forum case is in many ways a sideshow to the U.S. government’s suit—which alleges breach of contract and violations of the False Claims Act. In addition to the prominent plaintiff, the government’s suit also seeks the bigger prize?? $102 million in damages...
Beck said the Nobel selection committee has ignored astrophysicists like Kirshner at the expense of other kinds of physicists in the past. Beck suggested that Kirshner could win a “make-up prize?? given by the committee to right what he described as a past injustice—not giving Edwin P. Hubble the Nobel for his original theory on expansion of the universe...