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Fatimi Mernisi Talks About Life Growing up in a Harem
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JACKIE LYDEN, Host: From the time of her girlhood in Morocco, Fatima
Mernisi was a dream-enchanted child. She was ostracized by her father'
s family when her mother left the family harem and her mother pushed
her to accomplish great things. Mernisi grew up to be one of the
most respected scholars in the Muslim world, a sociologist with an
international reputation. But her newest book is a complete departure.
Dreams of Trespass - Tales of a Harem Girlhood is an invented memoir
that moves as intimately and elegantly as Shaharazade [sp] might have
told her ...
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OBITUARY: Professor Eugene Wigner
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Eugene Paul Wigner, physicist: born Budapest...formulating Quantum Mechanics: Paul A.M. Dirac (1902...Wolfgang Pauli (1900) and Eugene Wigner (1902). The citation...applying them widely". Eugene Wigner was born in Budapest...
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The greatest riddle in physics: should Britain join the euro? ECONOPHYSICS
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; ...insouciance. In the 1950s, Eugene Wigner, the Nobel prizewinning...in all their detail. Wigner decided that they were...stunningly accurate. Now Dr Paul Ormerod and Craig Mounfield...consultants, have used Wigner's Random Matrix Theory...
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Nobel callings // The university's ranks yield 61 winners of the prestigious prize
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene P. Wigner Trygve Haavelmo, Economic Sciences...Bertrand Russell, Literature, 1950 Paul A. Samuelson, Economic Sciences...Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins Eugene Wigner, Physics, 1963, with Maria...
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John von Neumann's contribution to economic science.
Magazine article from: International Social Science Review
; ...von Neumann on crucial questions, Paul Samuelson, a Nobel Laureate in Economics...distinguished Hungarian emigres, including Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, and Dennis Gabor...Enrico Fermi, Hermann Weyl, and Wigner. (13) Von Neumann proved to be...
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Math may be not in the stars, but in our selves.(The Dallas Morning News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...Four decades ago, the physicist Eugene Wigner expressed that wonder in a famous...no rational explanation for it," Wigner wrote. Many scientists suspect that...never previously suspected. When Paul Dirac's equations describing electrons...
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Listing of U.S. Nobel Prize winners
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Robert Hofstadter 1963, Eugene Wigner 1963, Maria Goeppert...William H. Stein 1974, Paul J. Flory 1976, William...Herbert C. Brown 1980, Paul Berg 1980, Walter Gilbert...Richard E. Smalley 1997, Paul D. Boyer 1998, Walter...
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Marcos Moshinsky, cuidador del faro de la ciencia.(TT: Marcos Moshinsky, keeper of the flame of science)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Contenido
; ...Princeton para continuar sus estudios bajo la direccin de Eugene Wigner, un maestro tan distinguido que 2 dcadas ms tarde, en...superficialmente, aclara Moshinsky con modestia-- y a Niels Bohr y Paul Dirac, ganadores del premio Nobel de fsica en 1922 y...
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RAISE A TOAST TO THEIR MEMORY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Ende, Roger Zelazny, Henry Roth and Edith Pargeter. Paul Horgan and Frank Waters were giants of Southwestern literature...Meister, who sought a cure for AIDS, and Nobel laureates Eugene Wigner, Alfven Hannes, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Ernest...
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; By Dr. Paul M. Grant Chauncey Starr, founder of EPRI--the Electric Power Research...learn more about the nuclear power reactor design efforts started by Eugene Wigner and Alvin Weinberg. In 1946 he was asked by North
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Obituary: Professor Victor Weisskopf; Atom-bomb and Cern physicist
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...friends, such as Enrico Fermi, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, Edward Teller...the two great men, Niels Bohr and Paul A.M. Dirac". Weisskopf says...replacing Hendrik Casimir, whom Paul Ehrenfest, shortly before his suicide...
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