Word: prize
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...work centers on early American history, the American Revolution and the Anglo-American world in the pre-industrial era. Bailyn has devoted more than 40 years to teaching and studying American history at Harvard. Along the way, he has authored 11 books, two of which have won the Pulitzer Prize...
Herschbach, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, said he was "surprised and flattered but also embarrassed" by this most recent honor...
Corey, a 1990 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was more critical of the award and what it meant than his two colleagues...
Simpson's IOP office is adorned with reminders of the Wyoming landscape and a particularly prize possession, an autographed picture of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody...
...Morrison laughs at a subsequent event that has, in terms of mass recognition, affected her life more dramatically than did the Nobel Prize: the selection, in December 1996, of her 1977 novel Song of Solomon as the second offering of the Oprah Book Club. "I'd never heard of such a thing," she says, "and when someone called, all excited, with the news, all I could think was, 'Who's going to buy a book because of Oprah?'" The answer came fairly quickly and astonishingly. "A million copies of that book sold," she says, again shaking her head. "And sales...