100 Nobel Laureates Issue Dire Warning For Planet Earth At the nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium here this past month, 1986 WilliamN. lipscomb Chemistry, 1976 Alan G. MacDiarmid Chemistry, http://www.lightwatcher.com/preparenow/warning_from_100.html
Extractions: http://www.rense.com/general18/100nobel.htm At the Nobel Peace Prize Centennial Symposium here this past month, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nobel prize, 100 Nobel laureates have issued a brief but dire warning of the 'profound dangers' facing the world. Their statement predicts that our security depends on immediate environmental and social reform. The following is the text of that statement: THE STATEMENT The most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from the irrational acts of states or individuals but from the legitimate demands of the world's dispossessed. Of these poor and disenfranchised, the majority live a marginal existence in equatorial climates. Global warming, not of their making but originating with the wealthy few, will affect their fragile ecologies most. Their situation will be desperate and manifestly unjust. It cannot be expected, therefore, that in all cases they will be content to await the beneficence of the rich. If then we permit the devastating power of modern weaponry to spread through this combustible human landscape, we invite a conflagration that can engulf both rich and poor. The only hope for the future lies in co-operative international action, legitimized by democracy. It is time to turn our backs on the unilateral search for security, in which we seek to shelter behind walls. Instead, we must persist in the quest for united action to counter both global warming and a weaponized world.
Extractions: P rix Nobel de 1975 à 1979 John Warcup Comforth et Vladimir Prelog William N. Lipscomb llya Prigogine Peter Mitchell ... Herbert C. Brown et Georg Wittig Pour ses travaux sur la stéréochimie des réactions enzymatiques. (Sidney, 1917 - ) The Chemistry of Penicilline (2). La guerre terminée, il revient à ses premiers travaux sur la synthèse des stérols, sans abandonner sa collaboration avec Robinson, même après son entrée à l'Institut National du Medical Research Council, d'abord à Hampstead, ensuite à Mill Hill. C'est là que ses recherches se poursuivent sur le cholestérol et la biosynthèse des stérols avec deux nouveaux collaborateurs, George Popjak et Konrad Bloch. En 1962, Cornforth et Popják quittent le Medical Research Council pour co-diriger le Milsted Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology. Ils y effectueront des études sur la stéréochimie des réactions enzymatiques. Popjak parti en 1968 travailler à l'Université de Califomie, à Los Angeles, c'est Hermann Eggerer qui le remplace auprès de Comforth pour travailler sur l'"asymétrie" du groupe méthyl. En 1975, John Cornforth est nommé professeur à l'Université du Sussex, où il demeurera jusqu'à son départ en retraite.
