Last week Dr. Jan Tinbergen, a longtime leader in econometrics, was finally given the ultimate honor, the first Nobel Prize in Economics.

Economists in recent years have become the most influential of all scholars, taking their place as fixtures in the chancelleries, banks and board rooms of the world. Last week two longtime leaders in this increasingly glamorous science were finally given the ultimate honor, the first Nobel Prize in Economics, the…

Dr. Maarten Schmidt, of Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories and educated at Leiden University won the astronomy’s prestigious Helen B. Warner prize.

What is a quasar? Answers were almost as numerous as the astronomers who turned up at the Montreal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New theories about the nature of “quasi-stellar sources” have only generated new arguments; new observations have only enlarged the uncertainty. About all…

The Waterler Peace Prize didn’t go to a Dutchmen, as stipulated, but Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League of Nations.

To the Government of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina the sum of more than half a million florins ($220,000) was left by Her Majesty’s loyal subject Banker Johan Gerard Daniel Waterler with two stipulations:

1) If the Royal Government “should not find itself in a suitable position” to award the income from this…