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Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). "Abraham Lincoln: The Early Years," a repeat for the superb James Agee script, starring Joanne Woodward and Royal Dano...
...WOODWARD Erstwhile Non-Nobel-Prizewinning Chemist Harvard University Cambridge, Mass...
...TIME erred, regretfully withdraws the Nobel Prize it inadvertently awarded Chemist Woodward...
...Year for 1960 reflect the wide scientific spectrum, with all its communal interests and all its conflicts. On one side is Harvard's Nobel Prizewinner Robert Woodward, famed for his syntheses of quinine, cholesterol and, in 1960, of chlorophyll. Woodward seeks no practical application for his work, saying: "I'm just fascinated by chemistry. I am in love with it. I don't feel the need for a practical interest to spur me." At an opposite pole is M.I.T.'s Charles Stark Draper, an engineering genius in aeronautics and astronautics who describes himself as nothing more than "a greasy-thumb...
Robert Burns Woodward. 43, is a man with two loves: the color blue and the science of chemistry. The first is an easy affectation; Harvard's Woodward satisfies it with a blue and white office, a blue coffee cup and, day in day out, a blue necktie. The second is an all-consuming passion. Disdaining all other activities (exercise seems a particular waste of time to him), Woodward has been the architect of some of the most complex biological molecules ever built by man. He synthesized quinine by the time he was 26, kept lengthening the list of his accomplishments?...