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...California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, perhaps the best engineering school in the U.S., a pack of recruiters from 169 companies pounced on 147 graduates this past winter. They regard each recruit from Caltech as a "capture," in the jargon of the business, to be treasured and pampered. Kenneth Sieck, 22, has talked with 20 aerospace company recruiters and has taken six plant tours, including a visit to an IBM facility in Tucson, complete with rental car, dinner and lunches. At Northrop Aircraft, company officials proudly showed him their latest equipment...
Professional astronomers are not above sentiment. Caltech's Charles Kowal, who has found scores of heavenly bodies, from supernovas to moonlets, christened one asteroid Napolitania, after Naples, Italy, his wife's home town. Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics called another Nancy, for his wife. Lowell Observatory's Edward Bowell, in what is admittedly a minority view, sees nothing wrong with someone seeking immortality by hitching his moniker to a star. After all, he says, "nobody owns the stars, do they...
Once again the U.S. did well in the Nobel rivalry. Including the previously announced prize in medicine, in which two of the three winners were American (Caltech's Roger Sperry and Harvard's David Hubel), the U.S. this year can claim five of the eight science laureates, as well as the economics prize...
...threatened by the Reagan Administration's budget cutters, this scientific assault on the cosmos may come to a halt. At a meeting in Pittsburgh last week, astronomers warned that the cuts will mean "extinction" for the planetary program. These words were echoed by Bruce Murray, director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who asked: "Are we so obsessed with our present difficulties that we would give up investing in our future...
Winners ranged from Poet and Novelist Robert Penn Warren, 76, to Caltech Physicist Stephen Wolfram, 21, who received his Ph.D. in physics at age 20. Others included Soviet Emigré Poet Joseph Brodsky, 41; American Indian Poet Leslie Marmon Silko, 33; and Bell Laboratories Scientist Douglas D. Osheroff, 35. Warren will receive the maximum $60,000 a year, while young Physicist Wolfram gets the minimum, $24,000. The reason for the difference is that annual fees to fellows are on a sliding scale, based on their age. An extra $800 is added to the stipend for each year...