Word: torsten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finance a celebration (the East German mark, a nonconvertible currency, is almost worthless outside the country). "I just can't believe it!" exclaimed Angelika Wache, 34, the first visitor to cross at Checkpoint Charlie. "I don't feel like I'm in prison anymore!" shouted one young man. Torsten Ryl, 24, was one of many who came over just to see what the West was like. "Finally, we can really visit other states instead of just seeing them on television or hearing about them," he said. "I don't intend to stay, but we must have the possibility to come...
...Medicine Simon S. Kuznets 1971 Economics Kenneth J. Arrow 1972 Economics Wassily W. Leontief 1973 Economics William N. Lipscomb 1976 Chemistry John H. Van Wleck 1977 Physics Sheldon L. Glashow 1979 Physics Steven Weinberg 1979 Physics Baruj Benacerraf 1980 Medicine Walter Gilbert 1980 Chemistry David Hubel 1981 Medicine Torsten Wiesel 1981 Medicine Nicolaas Bloembergen 1981 Physics Carlo Rubbia 1984 Physics Bernard Lown 1985 Peace...
After close to three decades at Harvard, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel '57 this summer moved to Rockefeller University to expand his research, the noted nuerobiologist said yesterday...
...objects in the show that were clearly conceived and engineered on the drawing board are far less appealing and not characteristically Scandinavian. The floor and table lamps (1979) of Denmark's Claus Bonderup and Torsten Thorup are dated high-tech novelty items. Norwegians Svein Gusrud and Hans Christian Mengshoel's Balans Activ chair contraption (1979), made in Norway, is equally uncharming. It consists of a kneepad connected by steel tubes to a padded seat, all of which is supposed to relieve pressure on the spine. It is, instead, a pain in the eyes...
...Sometimes I think we are more explorers of an unknown continent that we are physicians or scientists," Torsten N. Wiesel, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, says quietly. That continent is the brain, and the 22 years of research Wiesel calls only the "first steps" in its exploration have won him and colleague David H. Hubel, Berry Professor of Neurobiology, the 1981 Nobel Prize for Medicine...