BY JOHANNA BOCKMAN In 1975, Soviet economist Leonid Kantorovich and American economist Tjalling Koopmans jointly won the Nobel Prize in Economics “for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources.”1 How could an economist of socialism and an economist of capitalism share this prestigious prize? Michael Bernstein, historian of the United States and Provost [...]
BY KATHRYN H. JACOBSEN In 2003 several individuals who ate at a chain restaurant near Pittsburgh died from hepatitis A virus. The outbreak was eventually linked to green onions imported from Mexico. Oddly enough, people who live in the United States are in some ways at greater risk of death from hepatitis A than populations [...]
BY WILLIAM A. BLANPIED Modern science provides what may be the first robust example of a globalized activity. The contributions of a Pole (Copernicus), a German (Kepler), and an Italian (Galileo) to what became known as the Newtonian synthesis is probably the most obvious case in point. Four centuries later, scientific research remains a highly [...]