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...latest list of scientists honored by the Vatican ranges across creeds and nations-from Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Sir James Chadwick, 70 (Church of England), to Hideki Yukawa, a Buddhist Nobelman from Japan.* Each man will receive a silver-gilt chain and medallion, and each will rate the Vatican title of excellency. From the Pope will come parchment proclamations addressing the Catholic scientists as "Dear Sir," the non-Catholics as "Famous Gentleman." And the varied salutations will be eloquent testimony to the Pontifical Academy's current catholicity of choice...
...Year also include the prodigious striplings of science. One is Biologist Joshua Lederberg, 35, a Nobelman in 1958 for his demonstration that viruses can change the heredity of bacteria, who is now deep in the study of a new science that he calls "exobiology" ?an attempt to obtain and compare life on other planets with that on earth. Another is Physicist Donald Glaser, one of the U.S.'s two Nobel prizewinners in science for 1960 (Chemist Libby is the other). Glaser's award came for his development of the bubble chamber, a quantum jump in the study of atomic...
There is not, and cannot be, a realistic rule for classifying science or scientists. Physicist Emilio Segrč, a 1959 Nobelman for his explorations into the Alice-Through-the-Looking-Glass world of antimatter, is a master of pure theory. Virologist John Enders, with his struggles to understand submicroscopic organisms, has given mankind a powerful biological tool to produce immunization against diseases. Physicist Charles Townes, from his theoretical speculations about microwaves, sired one of the most revolutionary devices of the age: the maser, of immense practical application not only on earth but in seeking out the wonders of the universe. Geneticist...
...Academy for its "nonconformist" decision to give him the prize, snarled at those in the West who had said that he did not deserve it. Quasimodo pooh-poohed the Soviet oppression of Hungary, lashed out at Western publications that had hinted that he was a Red. Said the new Nobelman: "It is said that I am proud, conceited, and difficult to understand. The truth is that I am loved by the people...
...gets to carry them forward faster. When he was greeted by an official party at the Prevoyance Sociale Building, Dr. Schweitzer exchanged pleasantries, then made his choice between an escalator and a flight of stairs to the fourth-floor scene of his new honor. Bemusing most of his greeters, Nobelman Schweitzer flew up the stairs, left those who had deferred to his age by taking the escalator to ponder the virtues of fast footwork...