Eutrusca
19-04-2005, 20:20
Yayyy! [ and the crowd goes wild ]
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/science/19prof.html?th&emc=th
EDIT: Here, for your delictation and delight, is the first portion of the article ( which totals three pages ):
A Philanthropist of Science Seeks to Be Its Next Nobel (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/science/19prof.html?th&emc=th)
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: April 19, 2005
ANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The boys were halfway across a snowfield when the German airplane appeared. Their rifles, clumsily camouflaged, were sticking out of their backpacks.
They stood frozen as the plane buzzed in tighter and tighter circles around them, wondering if they should run for the only possible shelter, a large boulder in the middle of the field.
It might finally have been curtains for the Kavli boys, Fred and Aslak.
"If we'd run, we would have been done for," Fred Kavli, 77, recalled recently, his head thrown back as he communed with memories of an adventurous youth in wartime Norway. "That was very dangerous, yah," he said, recalling expeditions to steal fuel oil from the Germans.
Mr. Kavli survived his boyhood, much to the retroactive relief of scientists worldwide.
A year ago, Mr. Kavli stood up in front of a group of the nation's scientific elite at a dinner at the Carlyle Hotel in New York and announced that he was in the process of spending $75 million to endow 10 scientific research institutes, all bearing his name, at colleges around the country and the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/science/19prof.html?th&emc=th
EDIT: Here, for your delictation and delight, is the first portion of the article ( which totals three pages ):
A Philanthropist of Science Seeks to Be Its Next Nobel (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/science/19prof.html?th&emc=th)
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: April 19, 2005
ANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The boys were halfway across a snowfield when the German airplane appeared. Their rifles, clumsily camouflaged, were sticking out of their backpacks.
They stood frozen as the plane buzzed in tighter and tighter circles around them, wondering if they should run for the only possible shelter, a large boulder in the middle of the field.
It might finally have been curtains for the Kavli boys, Fred and Aslak.
"If we'd run, we would have been done for," Fred Kavli, 77, recalled recently, his head thrown back as he communed with memories of an adventurous youth in wartime Norway. "That was very dangerous, yah," he said, recalling expeditions to steal fuel oil from the Germans.
Mr. Kavli survived his boyhood, much to the retroactive relief of scientists worldwide.
A year ago, Mr. Kavli stood up in front of a group of the nation's scientific elite at a dinner at the Carlyle Hotel in New York and announced that he was in the process of spending $75 million to endow 10 scientific research institutes, all bearing his name, at colleges around the country and the world.