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- PLANET OF THE YEAR, Page 63Nobel for a Noble Cause
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- Physicists and chemists can earn the ultimate recognition: a
- Nobel Prize. Why not accord the same honor to environmental
- scientists? At the conference, the proposal was backed by everyone
- from U.S. Senator Albert Gore to Vasili Peskov, a correspondent for
- the Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. Peskov suggested that
- the first environmental Nobel be given posthumously to Rachel
- Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring helped alert the world to the
- pollution threat.
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- Alfred Nobel's will set up five awards: physics, chemistry,
- medicine or physiology, literature and peace. But that limitation
- was overcome in 1968, when Sweden's Central Bank financed a
- separate economics prize in memory of Nobel.