U.S. science honored by 1993 Nobel prizes. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: October 20, 1993| Author: Musgrove, Martha | Copyright information 
    Americans didn't make a clean sweep of this year's Nobel prizes in the sciences; a Canadian and a Briton shared the prizes for chemistry and physiology. Still, six of eight is enough of a sweep to feel a sense of national pride _ and to ponder how this country nurtures innovative thought about the sciences. 
    The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science went to Dr. Robert W. Fogel of the University of Chicago and Dr. Douglass C. North of Washington University in St. Louis. 
    The...

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