Oct 30 1968
From The Space Library
Award of $70,000 Nobel Prize in physics to Univ. of California at Berkeley Prof. Luis W. Alvarez and in chemistry to Yale Univ. Prof. Lars Onsager meant U.S. had won all three Nobel science categories for 1968, as it had in 1946. Awards in medicine and physiology {see Oct. 16] went to U.S. geneticists. Dr. Alvarez was cited for "decisive contributions" in early 1960s to physics of subatomic particles and techniques for their detection. Dr. Onsager was honored for findings published in 1931 and sometimes regarded as fourth law of thermodynamics, "the reciprocity relations of Onsager," which could determine interrelation between voltage and temperature as electric current flowed through metal wire. Awards would be presented in Stockholm Dec. 10. (Lannan, W Star, 10/30/68, Al; Lee, NYT, 10/31/68, 1; O'Toole, W Post, 10/31/68, A25)
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