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Half of the physics prize will go to Kai Siegbahn, 63, of Sweden's Uppsala University, who follows in the footsteps of his late father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.* The other half of the award will be shared equally by two Americans, Nicolaas Bloembergen, 61, a Dutch-born Harvard professor, and Arthur Schawlow, 60, of Stanford. The prize in chemistry will go to Kenichi Fukui, 63, of Japan's Kyoto University, and Roald Hoffmann, 44, of Cornell University...
...than plutonium production-and they have some of the world's most brilliant atomic scientists. Niels Bohr, who back in 1939 pointed out theoretically that it was the rare U-235 which underwent fission when bombarded by slow neutrons, heads the Danish program. Two other Nobel Prizewinners, Manne Siegbahn and Theodor Svedberg, lead the work at Sweden's new laboratories. The Swiss Federal Council has voted over $4,000,000 for atomic research...
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