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Kilby eventually left TI to teach and tinker full time, earning more than 60 patents. One was for a device his wife requested that seems especially relevant in this telemarketing era: it lets you block out unwanted phone calls--though presumably not predawn calls from Stockholm...
...themselves the object of a two-day media frenzy. That's the way it's been for much of the past 99 years, ever since the Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901. And that's how it will be again this week when the calls go out from Stockholm and the prize completes its first century. Winners are being announced in the fields of Physics, Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine, along with a relatively new category, Economics ("the dismal science"), added in 1969. The Nobel for Peace will also be announced this week; for Literature by month...
...about $15,420 today) for the discovery of X rays. This year's prizes, given for what will almost certainly be more obscure achievements, will total more than $920,000 each. And that's not counting the market value of the gold medallion or the expenses-paid trip to Stockholm. After the ceremony, formerly impecunious researchers will find themselves awash in funding, showered with speaking gigs and offered their pick of jobs. Their opinions will be solicited on every subject under the sun, including matters light-years from their area of expertise...
...BLOOD DOPING In 1972 Dr. Bjorn Ekblom of Stockholm's Institute of Gymnastics and Sports drew a quart of blood from each of four athletes, removed the red cells and put them in cold storage. He reinfused the cells a month later and found that his subjects' increased oxygen-carrying capacity allowed them to run as much as 25% longer on a treadmill before reaching exhaustion. Blood doping was born. In 1984 U.S. Olympic cycling team coach Eddie Borysewicz set up a back-alley clinic in a Los Angeles motel room. Four of the seven athletes who doped won medals...
...working for a company that consults for online auctions. (He makes no money from Freenet, and since he doesn't claim to own it, he can't sell it.) He spends much of his free time--along with volunteer code writers from as far away as Stockholm and Houston--working out Freenet's kinks. It's in a creaky early version right now, so hard to use that only some 35,000 people have hooked up. High on Clarke's to-do list: create a search engine so users won't need to consult informal lists like "Steve...