The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/nobel_prize/)
One of Cornell’s most prominent alumnae, Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, died on Monday night, a friend confirmed to the Associated Press. Morrison was a prize-winning author who penned eleven books, including Beloved and The Bluest Eye.
Richard Axel is slated to deliver a lecture on “Scents and Sensibility: Representations of the Olfactory World in the Brain” on Nov. 15.
Senior research associate Lawrence Kidder was elected as one of 155 new Fellows for the American Physical Society for “major contributions to the development of numerical relativity.”
Former Cornell Prof. Richard Thaler took home the prize in what was apparently an overdue win for the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences on Monday.
Prof. Saul Teukolsky, physics and astrophysics, and senior research associate Lawrence Kidder are members of LIGO, a collaborative project that studies gravitational waves. They ran comparison tests for the prize-winning research.