Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film is the least popular with the Academy, but his career has been the longest and most-celebrated, including two prior wins. Leigh will be a favorite among the actors, who love his improvisational filming style. Coen, meanwhile, has an avid fan base, and he earned the Director's prize at Cannes (even though his film lost to Leigh's). Confused...
...team of reporters from the Los Angeles Times won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series entitled "Illegal Democratic Campaign Contributions...
Purcell shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch of Stanford for their independent discoveries of nuclear magnetic resonance...
...could have been a Nobel Prize winner for several other things," said Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus Norman F. Ramsey, himself a Nobel laureate...
...artist who's introduced to alcohol when he's young might merely become a drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical law at Yeshiva University in New York City: "I can make myself an Albert Einstein, and he may turn out to be a drug addict...