Americans sweep Nobel science prizes in 1972
The 1972 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry go to three American scientists. John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer win physics for superconductivity theory. Christian B Anfinsen of NIH and Stanford Moore with William H Stein of Rockefeller University win chemistry for ribonuclease structure and activity studies.
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Stockholm
Christian B. Anfinsen
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda
Stanford Moore
William H. Stein
Rockefeller University
New York
U.S
John Bardeen
Leon Cooper
John Robert Schrieffer
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Nobel prize winners announced with BCS theory highlighted
The report notes Anfinsen Moore Stein and Cooper Schrieffer as winners splitting 98 100 dollars for work on enzyme formation and biochemistry. It covers the physics prize awarded to Bardeen Cooper and Schrieffer for the BCS theory of superconductivity and mentions past laureates and dates. It also recalls Kamerlingh Onnes discovery and the enduring mystery of superconductivity mechanisms.
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Academy
Cooper
Brown University
Providence
R.I
Schrieffer
University of Pennsylvania
Heinrich Boll
West Germany
Gerald M. Edelman
United States
Rodney R. Porter
England
Science Academy
Kamerlin Onnes
Bardeen
Flood Warnings Sweep New Mexico Amid October Rain
Flash flood warnings covered the San Juan Basin and the lower Rio Grande Valley as October rain fell across New Mexico. Roswell reported nearly an inch of rain by 10:30 a.m. with more forecast. conditions expected to ease by Saturday morning per the National Weather Service Albuquerque office.
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New Mexico
Roswell
National Weather Service
Albuquerque
San Juan Basin
Rio Grande Valley
US admits accidental bombing of Hanoi French mission
The United States said the Hanoi strike on the French mission was inadvertent. No reports from distant ranches or the local weather office were available. evacuations were ordered for low lying areas along the San Francisco River after flash flood warnings.
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Washington
United States
Hanoi
U.S
New Mexico
Luna
Las Cruces
Becne
Mountain Bell Telephone Co. Man
Jim Miles
Roswell
United Way Honors Local Firms for Employee Campaigns
Rex Brown presented awards to firms achieving 80 percent or more employee contributions in the United Way Chaves County Employee Division. Diane Atwell Betty Hughes Laban Stewart and Bill Meadors are among the honorees from Franklin Aston and Fair Security National Bank Chowning Footwear and Miller's Star Radiator and Muffler.
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United Way
Chaves County
Diane Atwell
Franklin, Aston and Fair
Betty Hughes
Security National Bank
Laban Stewart
Chowning Footwear
Bill Meadors
Miller's
Rex Brown
Center
Nickson Hotel to Be Torn Down in Roswell Block
Denton and Yates of Artesia plan demolition by Coronado Wrecking Co. of the Nickson Hotel in Roswell’s 100 block East Fifth Street. The site, cleared from Fifth to Sixth, will be sold with furniture sales before work starts within a month. The Nickson, built about 1905, housed a lounge and shops and was tied to Roswell’s rail era and civic life.
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East Fifth Street
Alstubbs Daily Record
Fourth
Richardson
Nickson
Denton
Record
Santa Fe
Roswell
Charles A Denton
Harvey Yates
Artesia
Coronado Wrecking Co
Albuquerque
Virginia Beers
Guy Nickson
Roswell Chamber of Commerce
West End
East End
Nickson Coffee Shop
Nickson Barber Shop
Nickson Fountain and Sundries
Stewart
Gilkerson
Norton
Peter Hurd
Coronado Wrecking
Coronado
Dexter
Roy Norton
Nickson Hotel Co
Ernie Hodges
Gilder
Kissinger Thieu discuss partial cease fire in Saigon meeting
Kissinger and Thieu held a nearly four hour session amid reports a partial cease fire was under discussion. The talks in Saigon marked the third meeting in two days with U S officials including Bunker Whitehouse and Abrams observing. A cease-fire proposal was described as a goodwill gesture possibly paving the way for exchanges and future agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Henry A. Kissinger
Nguyen van Thieu
Nixon
Kissinger
Thieu
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Charles S. Whitehouse
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S. Army Chief of Staff
South Vietna
Ice man challenges zoning ruling on Roswell ice plant
Bob Wallace, cited as operating an ice making machine at 301 W. Country Club, defended his setup before the Roswell City Council and the Planning and Zoning Commission. He argued the facility should not be labeled a plant, noting prior licensing and noise complaints from nearby trailer renters. The commission will recommend to the council that the ice making machine not be treated as a plant, with civil action noted for noise issues if needed.
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Marilyn Holmes
Roswell
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Bob Wallace
W. Country Club
Wallace
James B. Stapp
Commission
Stuart Shanon
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Dr. Bardeen
University of Illinois
Anfinsen
Moore
Stein
Pennsylvania
Harvard
Bethesda Mdical Laboratories
Copenhagen
Medical Nobel Institute
Chicago
University of Wisconsin
Rockefeller Institute
Columbia University
Institute
United Way Awards
South Plains
South Vietnamese Information Ministry
Ice Man
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