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What then was the secret of Edison's inventiveness? The core of it must remain as elusive as the mystery of why Rembrandt handled chiaroscuro so masterfully; it was an inborn gift, honed by practice but unteachable. Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, for one, maintains that Edison could no more have stopped himself from inventing than a born punster can refrain from playing word games. Robert Conot, author of a 1979 biography of Edison, A Streak of Luck, observes that Edison's mind "multiplied devices from a single idea like a dividing amoeba and then compartmentalized...
They share a Nobel Prize for pioneering the CAT scanner
...image of tissue at any depth within a patient. The result: the CAT (for computerized axial tomography) scanner, a medical marvel now used in hospitals round the world. Last week the two scientists learned that they have something else in common: they will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and its accompanying cash award...
...always hopes, but I didn't have any solid idea. That's the mystery of the Swedish Academy," Sheldon L. Glashow, professor of Physics, said this week, when the fates granted him a 1979 Nobel prize in phsyics...
...prizewinners predicted the existence of the underlying "neutral current" and the "charm quark" particle more than six years before their existence was proven experimentally, Strauch said. He added that the experimenters who detected the "charm quark" in 1973 were awarded Nobel Prizes after two years while the theoreticians had to wait until yesterday...