Cornell Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Physics 1982
American professor Kenneth G. Wilson of Cornell University won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for theories on critical phenomena and phase transitions in matter. He expressed surprise at winning solo and noted expectations that Michael Fisher and Leo Kadanoff may have shared the honor earlier.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Kenneth G. Wilson
Cornell University
Cornell
Wilson
Ithaca
N.Y
Associated Press
Michael Fisher
Leo Kadanoff
University of Chicago
Israel
Leo Landau
Lars Onsager
June
Waltham, Mass
California Institute of Technology
Ithaca, N.Y
Gemayel to UN seeks foreign troop withdrawal from Lebanon
Lebanese President Amin Gemayel arrived in New York for his first U.S. visit to urge the withdrawal of Israeli Syrian and Palestinian forces from Lebanon and to press for international aid to rebuild the war-ravaged country. He plans talks with President Reagan and at the UN about a $12 billion reconstruction program and a three month extension for UN peacekeeping in the south.
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Amin Gemayel
United States
Lebanon
U.N. General Assembly
Gemayel
New York
Kennedy Airport
Reagan
Washington
Bashir Gemayel
Rahaeddin Eiat
Council For Development and Reconstruction
Mohammed Atallah
U.S
Alfred Mady
U.N. Security Council
U.N
PLO
Israel
France
Francois Mitterrand
Rome
Alessandro Pertini
John Paul II
Overloaded skydiving plane crashes near Taft killing 14
Federal investigators say a twin engine C-45Ha aircraft carried about 2 730 pounds payload while 13 skydivers and the pilot died when the plane stalled after takeoff from a private Taft airstrip eight miles southeast of Taft California. Victims hailed from Santa Barbara Lompoc Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo.
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Taft
Calif
Don Llorente
National Transportation Safety Board
Los Angeles
Taft School of Sport
Art Armstrong
Santa Barbara
Lompoc
Santa Maria
San Luis Obispo
Armstrong
Mendes France dies former French premier and resistance hero
Pierre Mendes France, a WW II resistance fighter and seven month wartime premier, died at 75. He brokered Indochina settlement ending French involvement and later edited a critic role. Born 1907, he rose from lawyer to premier before serving with de Gaulle’s Free French Forces.
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Pierre Mendes France
France
Indochina
Mendes-France
Vietnam
Morocco
Charles de Gaulle
Free French
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