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Article: The Prize.(California Institute of Technology )(Brief Article)
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- October 1, 2001
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* PASADENA--If, like me, you have often wondered how it will feel when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards you the Nobel Prize, let Dr. David Baltimore, president of the California Institute of Technology and 1975 laureate in medicine, tell you: "It was like entering a fairy tale."
This year marks the centennial of the great prize devised by Alfred Nobel. Undoubtedly, in 1901, neither Pasadena nor Caltech loomed large in the minds of the Nobel judges. But today, if you want to bask in the award's reflected glow, you can hardly do better than to come here. California boasts the world's largest concentration of Nobel laureates (not counting the United ...