Word: prizes
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...receipt of the prize in economics by Harvard's Baker Professor of Administration Robert C. Merton last week focused campuswide attention on the prize...
...mind, the significance [of the Nobel prize] is that because of this rather strange person [Alfred Nobel], you have a small country of eight and a half million people reminding the world every fall that the kind of thing recognized by these prizes is important," said Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach in a phone interview from Oregon last night. Herschbach received the Nobel prize in chemistry...
...this country, [the prize] tends to be treated as creating a few more very minor celebrities," rather than sending a message about the importance of science, literature and peace, he said...
...great deal of planning goes into ensuring the integrity of the prize and making it an "occasion of note," said Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow, a 1979 Nobel laureate...
...almost every case the winners of the Nobel prize in science have been deserving," he said. "It's also true that some scientists have been neglected...