Nobels to U.S. again
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The 1976 Nobel physics prize has been awarded to Professor Burton Richter and Professor Samuel C. C. Ting, both of the United States. The Associated Press reported that the Royal Academy of Science said the prize was awarded for discoveries in the exploration of the smallest components of matter, smaller than atoms and their nuclei. The two prizewinners worked independently at two of the world’s largest particle accelerators. Professor Richter was born in 1931 in New York, and he works at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre in California.
Professor Ting was born in the United States in 1936 of Chinese parents. He grew up in China, but returned to the United States in 1956. Professors Richter and Ting were the fourth and fifth Americans to be named Nobel winners, for a clean sweep of the prestigious awards so far this year. Earlier two American virologists won the medicine prize, and the economist, Milton Friedman, the Nobel prize for economics. The literature prize will be aw r arded on Thursday.
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