Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard professors and a Pakistani yesterday received the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the theoretical unity of interactions between elementary subatomic particles...
Glashow said the three Nobel laureates worked on the underlying connection between electromagnetism and the "weak" nuclear force (which causes radioactivity), as a step towards Einstein's ideal of a fully unified field theory that would include gravity and the "strong" nuclear force (which binds protons to neutrons...
Tufts University physicist Allan M. Cormack, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize foe medicine for his development of a sophisticated x-ray machine, said yesterday that despite the device's high cost, every major hospital ought to have...
...Browne and company will keep the machinery of dissent from running on empty by raising money with benefit concerts. But the members of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility are supplying much of the movement's intellectual firepower. Among them are Lewis Mumford, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and four Nobel Laureates: Linus Pauling; James D. Watson; George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus; and Harold Urey...
...three parts, beginning on the following pages and continuing for the next two weeks. The book covers a stormy period: from November 1968, when President-elect Nixon began assembling his team, to January 1973, when Kissinger concluded the Viet Nam negotiations that were to win him a Nobel Peace Prize. (The second volume, in preparation now, covers the four years ending in January 1977.) Kissinger's work is much concerned with the calculus of power: when and how it should be applied or withheld; how it affects a nation's conduct; how it must be interwoven with concepts not only...