Coming: student Nobelists.Coming: Student Nobelists A new program to award $50,000 American Nobel Fellowshipsto graduate students in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics was announced last month by the Westport, Conn.-based American Nobel Anniversary Committee (ANAC ANAC Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (Brasil) ANAC Association of Nurses in AIDS Care ANAC Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada ANAC Animal Nutrition Association of Canada ANAC Automatic Number Announcement Circuit ). The nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. was set up in 1941 by Albert Einstein and French emigre Jacques Ferrand to honor Alfred Nobel and U.S. winners of the award named for him. The new fellowships, to be awarded every other year, will goto students "who show tremendous aptitude, skill and innovative ability in some of the subdisciplines that complement the Nobel awards," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Henry Singer, ANAC's executive officer. Winners, who will be able to use the fellowships to complete their graduate studies or to finance research, will be chosen by Nobel laureates Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. , Singer says. the first awards are scheduled to be made on Dec. 9, 1988. Though ANAC is not affiliated with the Stockholm-based NobelFoundation, which offers the Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. (SN: 10/25/86, p.262), Singer says the Nobel Foundation The Nobel Foundation was created by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, to manage his estate and award prizes, known as Nobel Prizes, for academic achievement in several areas. has offered the ANAC fellowships program its enthusiastic support. Money for the program is to come from corporate sponsors. And these can name the fellowship they endow after anyone they choose, Singer says, "so long as [the fellowship's] ultimate objective is to enhance and nurture the growth and development of future Nobel laureates." An anonymous donor has already contributed the $25,000 needed to set up the chemistry fellowship. |
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