Nobel Prize

Born May 20, 1918, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA   Address: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, 156-29, Pasadena, California 91125, USA   Academic Education 1939 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, B.A. (Biostatistics) 1942 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Ph.D. (Genetics) 1943 California Institute of Technology, M.S. (Meteorology)   Appointments and Professional Activities 1947-48 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow,…

This is not a spade: The poetry of Seamus Heaney by Ola Larsmo This article was published on 20 February 2007. At the core of Seamus Heaney’s poetry a profound experience is revealed – that a gap exists between the totality of what can be said and the totality of all that can be witnessed,…

Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics with one half to Professor Martin L. Perl, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA for the discovery of the tau lepton and with…

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Born: September 15, 1937, Yakima, Washington, USA Address: 460 West Barry Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657, USA   Education 1959 University of Chicago, B.A., History 1964 University of Chicago, Ph.D., Economics   Fellowships and honors 1955-59 Proctor and Gamble Scholarship 1959-60 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1961-62 Brookings Fellowship 1963 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship 1966-67 Ford Foundation Faculty…

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 7, 1995 Monetary Neutrality Pdf 614 kB

Robert E. Lucas Jr delivering his speech of thanks at the Nobel Prize banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 1995. Robert E. Lucas, Jr’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1995 Your Majesties, Ladies and Gentlemen, As you all know, Alfred Nobel did not choose to establish a prize in Economics. This…

Poetry (a selection) Eleven Poems. Belfast : Festival Publications, Queen’s University, 1965 Death of a Naturalist. London : Faber, 1966 A Lough Neagh Sequence. Didsbury, Manchester : Phoenix Pamphlets Poets Press, 1969 Boy Driving His Father to Confession. Farnham, Surrey : Sceptre Press, 1970 (150 numbered copies) Night Drive. Crediton, Devon : Richard Gilbertson, 1970…

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1995 Nobel Lecture in Chemistry Pdf 646 kB

F. Sherwood Rowland’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1995 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My friends and colleagues, Paul Crutzen and Mario Molina, and I are most grateful for the honors bestowed upon us today, for the Nobel Prize is the ultimate in recognition in the scientific world. It is…