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Transcript: Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics Announced
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- October 12, 1994
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ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Scientists from North America continue to receive
many of the Nobel Prizes this year. Today it was announced that an
American won the prize for chemistry and an American and a Canadian
will share the award for physics.
In both prizes, scientists were rewarded for basic research breakthroughs
that have led to the development of such diverse products as new plastics
and higher octane gasoline. NPR's Joe Palca has more.
JOE PALCA, Reporter: To understand such fundamental questions as
why quartz is hard or water is wet, scientists like to study how the
atoms inside these compounds are joined together. Now, of course,
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