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-By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/Louisville
The fall of the Eppinger Prize came as a shock to past recipients of the award, a number of whom are Jewish. "If someone had told me that the award honored a man who had this past, I would not have accepted it," says former Prizewinner Baruch Blumberg of Fox...
Or consider the elbowing at the most elaborate California dinner parties. "People consider it chic to arrive late," says Wallis Annenberg, stepdaughter of the celebrated curtsier. "This is the land of the grand entrance, and God forbid that the audience isn't assembled when one arrives." In a variant...
-By Claudia Wallis
Jerne's contribution to immunology is more fundamental. Born in London to Danish parents, he did not earn his M.D. until age 40, but, as the Nobel Committee observed, he quickly distinguished himself as "the great theoretician in immunology." His major theories explain how the immune system develops and...