Category: Scientific Community
9 November 1998
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Hot Mama
Marie Curie, a French physicist famous for her research on radioactivity, was born on 7 November 1867. Madame Curie and her husband Pierre found that a mineral called pitchblende was...
4 November 1998
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Another Physicist Goes to Washington
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Democrats now have a physicist of their own in the U.S. Congress. In an upset victory yesterday, Rush Holt edged out first-term Republican Mike Pappas to capture New Jersey's...
30 October 1998
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California, Ivy Leagues are Tops in Physical Sciences
East and west coast universities captured the top slots for "highest impact" research in the physical sciences, according to rankings in the November/December issue of ScienceWatch. The Institute for Scientific...
23 October 1998
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Diversified Science on New Panel's Agenda
WASHINGTON, D.C.--In the latest effort to boost the numbers of underrepresented populations in science, President Clinton signed a bill last week that calls for a new commission that will recommend...
20 October 1998
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Germany's New Science Minister Steps Out of Shadow
BONN--The newly elected ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Greens yesterday announced that Edelgard Bulmahn will become research and education minister when the new government assumes control on 27 October....
14 October 1998
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Welfare Economist Wins Nobel
An Indian scholar who pioneered the theory behind the economics of poverty--and also demonstrated its practical applications--has won the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. In awarding today's prize,...
13 October 1998
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NO News Is Good News for Medicine Nobelists
Three U.S. researchers learned yesterday that they will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that the gas nitric oxide (NO) acts as a messenger molecule in...
13 October 1998
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A Glimpse of Forbidden Charges Leads to Physics Nobel
No one has figured out how to chop up an electron--or the apparently indivisible charge it carries. But in the early 1980s, three researchers did manage to make the crowds...
13 October 1998
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Virtual Chemistry Garners Nobel Prizes
Two quantum chemists whose work helped make computational studies of molecules an everyday activity for scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today. Walter Kohn of the University of...
9 October 1998
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Bear Armor and Frisky Clams Win Ig Nobels
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS--While suspense builds for next week's announcement of the Nobel Prizes in science, a few of the past laureates gathered at Harvard University last night to help celebrate more...
7 October 1998
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Chemist Tapped to Head Genomics Institute
The Swiss life sciences giant Novartis is expected to name University of California, Berkeley, chemist Peter Schultz as the director of its new Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics. Last spring,...
1 October 1998
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NASA Turns 40
With activities ranging from a puppet show to a picnic to an inflatable space lab, NASA celebrated its 40th birthday today at centers across the country. The space agency was...
22 September 1998
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Hughes Head to Step Down
The largest U.S. private nonprofit biomedical research funder is looking for a new leader. On 22 September, Purnell Choppin, 69, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), announced that...
18 September 1998
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Hot Schools in the Biosciences
Quality not quantity. That's what won several institutions the top slot in the latest rankings of specific biological fields, reported in the September/October ScienceWatch. Scientists at the highest ranking universities...
16 September 1998
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Canada Tightens Ethics Rules for Human Subjects
OTTAWA--Canadian scientists have new ethical guidelines for research involving humans. The document, to be unveiled tomorrow, ends a 4-year struggle among the country's three research granting councils to draw up...
14 September 1998
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Graduate Admissions Down for Minorities
When California voters approved an anti-affirmative action referendum in 1996, and a district court that same year banned affirmative action at universities in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, educators feared that...
10 September 1998
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NRC Sees Grim Outlook for Young Ph.D.s
WASHINGTON, D.C.--In what surely will make depressing reading for aspiring researchers, a report released here today by the National Research Council (NRC) argues that the supply of newly minted Ph.D.s...
3 September 1998
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Plane Crash Kills Two Prominent AIDS Researchers
AIDS researchers are in shock today after learning that Jonathan Mann, former director of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Global Program on AIDS (GPA), was killed last night in the...
28 August 1998
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Fewer Black Engineers in the Pipeline
The number of African-Americans majoring in engineering at U.S. universities has dropped substantially in the past 5 years even as other underrepresented minorities--Hispanics and American Indians--have shown modest growth, the...
27 August 1998
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Neutrino Discoverer Dies
Physicist Frederick Reines, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the neutrino, died last night after a long illness. He was 80. As a professor at the...
10 August 1998
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NASA Woos Caltech Astronomer for Top Science Job
NASA officials have been hunting fruitlessly for a new space science chief since spring, when Wes Huntress announced he would leave the agency this fall after a 5-year stint in...
5 August 1998
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A Dog's Best Friend
Today is the 90th birthday of naturalist Miriam Rothschild, a self-trained English naturalist and the world's foremost authority on fleas. Rothschild had no formal education growing up, but learned about...
20 July 1998
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Indian Scientists Hit by Bomb Sanctions
NEW DELHI--Indian and Pakistani scientists are beginning to pay a price for last May's atom bomb tests--a price that many believe is unfairly penalizing civilian science. Individual U.S. agencies have...
10 July 1998
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Epidemiologist Named CDC Director
An industry epidemiologist with 22 years in the federal government--Jeffrey Koplan--has been chosen to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Donna Shalala, Secretary of...
1 July 1998
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New Chief for Rockefeller
Drawing rave reviews from the scientific community, Rockefeller University announced yesterday that Arnold J. Levine, a cancer biologist at Princeton University, will be its next president. He will take over...
30 June 1998
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Cheap Chemistry Journal
The first fruit of a collaboration between libraries and scientific publishers to rein in soaring journal costs will be a journal tentatively called Organic Chemistry Letters, the American Chemical Society...
26 May 1998
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Colwell Confirmed as NSF Director
Microbiologist Rita Colwell has been confirmed as the 12th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). But she won't start work immediately: Neal Lane, the current director, is still waiting...
1 May 1998
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Reformer Named New Russian Science Minister
Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his young premier didn't have to look far to find their new science minister: He was the previous chief's boss. Yesterday, Yeltsin and Prime Minister...
29 April 1998
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Academy Elects Members
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) yesterday announced the election of 60 new members and 15 foreign associates, including British mathematician Roger Penrose. Membership is considered one of the...
28 April 1998
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Out of Prison, Nobelist Heads for Europe
Scientists in half a dozen countries have been vying to work with Nobel laureate D. Carleton Gajdusek, who was released from prison this week after serving a year on charges...
20 April 1998
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New Life for Australian Research Centers
MELBOURNE--A major network of research partnerships has been spared the budgetary ax. Last week the Australian government announced it would extend the life of its Cooperative Research Centers (CRCs) program...
6 April 1998
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Energy Chief to Quit
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Energy Secretary Federico Peña announced at a press conference here today that he will resign at the end of June, ending over a year of speculation about his future...
25 March 1998
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NSF Board Lauds Goodall, NOVA
Chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall and public television's NOVA science series will take home the National Science Board's first Public Service Awards for their efforts to improve public understanding of science...
19 March 1998
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Radio Astronomers and Motorola Sign Pact
Quelling concerns in the astronomy community, the world's largest radio observatory will not be drowned out by round-the-clock cell phone chitchat. Yesterday the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which operates...
9 March 1998
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Top 10 Hot Papers for 1997
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, was the dominant theme among the top 10 hot papers for 1997, beating out even Dolly, the cloned lamb, in the citation count. All the...
19 February 1998
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Space Science Leader to Leave NASA
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Wesley Huntress, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science, announced yesterday that he will leave the agency before the end of the year. Huntress, who has managed NASA's programs in...
9 February 1998
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Bishop to Head UC San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has a new chancellor: Nobel Prize-winning oncogene researcher J. Michael Bishop. The appointment last week of Bishop, a physician by training and a...
23 January 1998
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Indian Scientists Claim Lab Corruption
NEW DELHI--A union of scientists has accused India's main civilian scientific agency of widespread corruption and mismanagement. The All India CSIR Scientific Workers Association (SWA), which represents some 5000 Indian...
8 January 1998
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Colwell Nominated for NSF Job
Microbiologist Rita Colwell has been nominated as deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Today's announcement by the White House puts Colwell in line to succeed Anne Petersen, who...
5 January 1998
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Sensenbrenner's Hot Ticket
The chair of the House Science Committee could probably live without the $250,000 he won in the D.C. Lottery last week. Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is the 22nd richest member...
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