Oct 30 1968

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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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