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Tag: Nobel laureate
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Campus & Community
From one Nobel laureate to another
Via a tweet, Harvard professor and Nobel laureate Jack Szostak congratulated former student Jennifer Doudna, who won the Nobel in chemistry on Wednesday.
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Nation & World
Nigeria at the crossroads
Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka told a Harvard audience on Wednesday that ruthless Islamist religious fundamentalism is “the enemy of humanity.”
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Campus & Community
Nobel laureate Hubel dies at 87
Harvard Medical School Professor David H. Hubel, whose discoveries in visual processing and development ushered in the modern study of the cerebral cortex and changed the way childhood cataracts and strabismus (“cross-eye”) were treated, died on Sept. 22 of kidney failure in Lincoln, Mass. He was 87.
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Campus & Community
Heaney’s death caught ‘the heart off guard’
Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature with longtime ties to Harvard, died Aug. 30 in Ireland at age 74.
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Campus & Community
Maskin named University Professor
Eric S. Maskin, a Nobel laureate whose work has had widespread impact on economics and aspects of political science, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest honor for a faculty member.
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Campus & Community
Nobel laureate Norman Ramsey, 96
Norman Ramsey, Harvard physics professor since 1947 and Nobel laureate in 1989, died at age 96 on Nov. 4, 2011.
