The Harvard Gazette

Nobel laureate

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Wole Soyinka, a former political prisoner who became in 1986 the first black African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, spoke at the Barker Center in the wake of a historic vote in Nigeria.

Nigeria at the crossroads

Nobelist Wole Soyinka decries violent fundamentalism, urges countering by those ‘on the side of life’

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DateApril 30, 2015June 5, 2018

Nobel laureate Hubel dies at 87

Helped reveal how the brain processes vision

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DateSeptember 27, 2013March 20, 2019

Seamus Heaney, who died Aug. 30, had close ties to Harvard. During the 2012 Commencement, Heaney read a poem he'd written for Harvard (photo 1). In 2000, he attended a portrait unveiling in his honor at Lamont Library (photo 2). In December 1984, the Gazette published the announcement of Heaney being named Harvard's Boylston Professor (photo 3).

Heaney’s death caught ‘the heart off guard’

Noted Irish poet had long and deep ties to Harvard

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DateAugust 30, 2013June 19, 2019

“Being named to the Adams University Professorship is a tremendous honor, for which I feel very grateful,” said Eric S. Maskin, a Nobel laureate, who was named a University Professor, Harvard's highest honor for a faculty member.

Maskin named University Professor

An effective teacher and a Nobelist, he spans economics, political science with his work

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DateSeptember 6, 2012April 22, 2019

During World War II, before his nearly four decades at Harvard, Norman Ramsey led a team working on radar devices small enough to be portable, served as radar consultant to the secretary of war, and joined the Manhattan Project.

Nobel laureate Norman Ramsey, 96

Physicist, mentor, and statesman

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DateNovember 15, 2011April 18, 2019