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* With University of California Colleague Edwin M. McMillan, for their synthesis of "trans-uranian elements," e.g., plutonium, used in A-bombs.
One of the nation's top science awards will go to Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry. A leader in the synthesis of quinine and cortisone, Woodward was selected for his "many outstanding contributions to organic chemistry."
Shortly before his death, Tozzer completed a general study of Middle American archaeology, which has been described by his colleagues as a "monumental synthesis." He also published what is considered the outstanding English translation of the Landa manuscript, written by a Spanish bishop about 1560.
"[An] absence of basic information is particularly noticeable in the fields of literature and history. Instead of being concentrated, channeled, continually kept aware of that 'spiritual duration' which is manifest in the evolution of thought, the attention roams distractedly and fails to grasp the unity of culture: only...
The history of art is not a dead-end street of higher criticism, but rather the mirror to history in its broadest aspects. It has by virtue of necessity, and particularly at the undergraduate level, come to symbolize that universal synthesis for our modern world which the medieval schoolmen hoped...