European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday october 15, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 europeans share Nobel prize in physics West German Swiss researchers win for studies in superconductivity Stockholm Sweden a Gcorge Bednorz of West Germany and k. Alex Mueller of Switzerland won he Nobel prize in physics wednesday Tor discovery of new superconducting materials that May Point the Way to faster computers and Bullet trains. Berth arc researchers at the ism Zurich research Laboratory in Switzerland. The announcement by the Royal swedish facade my of sciences cited their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in Ceramic materials last year Bednorz and Mueller reported finding superconductivity in an oxide material at a temperature 12 degrees celsius higher than previously known the announcement said scientists had been trying to raise that tempera Ture for More than a decade in an attempt to make wider use of superconductivity which is the ability of some materials to conduct electricity without los ing current to resistance. Standard superconductors Are used now in limited High tech application because they must be chilled below 400 degrees below Zero fahrenheit inexpensive process. But the work of Bednorz and Mueller pointed the Way to new materials that become superconducting at higher temperatures. Some scientists Hope that eventually room temperature superconductors will be found. That could open i he door to faster computers High Speed trains that float above their tracks and innovations in generation and transmission of electric Power it is the third year in a Row that a German scientist won or shared the physics prize and the second year for a Swiss last year two West germans Ernst Ruska and Gard Binnig and a Swiss Heinrich Rohror shared the physics prize. Ruska won for work in Electron optics and the design of the first Electron Microscope. Binnig and Rohrer designed the scanning tunnelling Microscope. Previous winners of the physics prize have included people who became famous beyond the science world like Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen who won in 1901 for work on a Ray technology and Guglielma Marconi who received the award in 1909 and is credited with in venting the radio. American scientists have been represented overwhelmingly among the winners of the science prizes since they were first awarded in 1901. . Citizens have won 52 of the 129 physics awards and 31 of 86 chemistry awards. Each Nobel carries a Cash prize of 2,175,000 swed ish Kronor or about $340,000, which is divided if More than one laureate is named for each prize. The news of wednesday s prizes follows the Surprise announcement tuesday that Costa rican president Oscar Arias Sanchez had won the Nobel peace prize. He received the award for developing and promoting a plan to end the guerrilla wars in Central America on monday japanese researcher Susumu Tonegawa Kalex Mueller App Tota Georg bad nor won the Nobel prize in Medicine for his study of How the body produces defences to fight off a variety of viruses and bacteria. The peace prize Winner was announced in Oslo. Norway while All other awards Are announced in Stockholm. Sweden and Norway were states under one monarchy in the time of Benefactor Alfred Nobel. All the awards including the literature and economic prizes to be announced later this month will be Given to the laureates in ceremonies in the two chips on dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel s death in 1896. Nobel a swedish chemist built a Fortune from his invention of dynamite and other explosives. Reports denied of forced Early election in Greece Athens Greece a the government on tuesday rejected greek and foreign Media reports that Premier Andreas Papandreou might be forced to Call an Early election because of allegations concerning his private life. The government s decision to hold elections at the end of its term is a Given fact government spokesman Yiannis Rouaa Tissair. The prediction of Early elections when made across the Atlantic is interesting if not he added. Parliamentary elections Aren t due until the socialist government s second four year term runs out in mid 1988. But greek newspapers have speculated for weeks that the 68-year-old Premier s Friendship with a 33 year old Creek air hostess Dimitra Liani Kapopoulos could affect the government s future. An Abc television today show broadcast from Athens on monday mentioned the Friendship and raised the possibility of an Early election which Trig Ger cd More front Page headlines in the greek capital. It s an open secret the Premier s erotic life said conservative Athens daily Eleftheros typos on tuesday. Shock broadcast about Andreas in the . Said the left Wing Athens daily Elefther Olympia. The Premier s american born wife Margaret who Heads the women s Union of Greece Ngethe coun try s biggest feminist organization was on a european Lour this week. Several greek newspapers reported tuesday thai mrs. Papandreou 64, had publicly asked at a political meeting in Antwerp Belgium that she not be referred to As the greek Premier s wife. When foreign reporters queried the government spokesman on tuesday about the Abc report Kouba tis declined to comment this in t a political Issue he said. It s a ques Tion of journalistic greek newspapers normally take Little interest in politicians personal lives reflecting a society that has never set puritanical standards for its leaders but Papandreou s private life became the focus of Public debate last month after he reportedly cited overwork As the reason for calling off a planned anniversary visit to the Southern town of kalamatas struck by a devastating earthquake last year. Geek newspapers reported hat Papandreou instead look a weekend cruise aboard a Friend s yacht and was spoiled at a tavern on the Cyc Ladic Island of Kyl nos accompanied by Liani Kapopoulos. The reports were not dented. Pictures of Liani Kapo Poulou who works for olym Pic airways the greek slate air Carrier were regularly featured in newspapers and weekly magazines in Athens. The Auburn haired air hostess has been nicknamed miso miso or 50-so, after the title of a television series that she hosted on the main stale run Channel Ert-1, which aimed at promoting Equality of . In a recent editorial Elefther Otylia which usually backs the socialists warned that the government could fall not Over its economic policy but because of a private the government s tight austerity policy and a recent spate of scandals involving alleged embezzlement of state funds by socialist officials recently triggered a decline for the party in the opinion poll ratings. It s Clear that Andreas Papandreou does t treat his estrangement from his wife As a family affair but As a political disagreement he newspaper wrote. With respect to the prime minister Well say it frankly dear or. Premier find a Clear Cut solution to this unprecedented rumours flooded Athens last month that mrs. Papandreou planned to transform her women s Union into a political party that would Challenge the ruling panel picnic socialist movement Pasok at the next elections. Mrs papa Dicou issued a statement making in Clear she would t stage a political confrontation with her husband. The government spokesman declined to comment on her remarks saying simply mrs. Papan Dicou is after All Only an Ordinary Tennis Star spooked by hotel room experience Sydney Australia up Wimb Ledon Champion Pat Cash tuesday claimed he fled his room at the Hyatt Kingsgate hotel the official Home to visiting Tennis celebrities for this week s australian indoor championships fearing it was harbouring a ghost. In one of Fth mum bizarre sports Sto nes of the year the 22-year-old austra Lian told now he was awakened by shuffling sounds and footsteps Mon Day in his darkened hotel room Al Syd Ney s Kings Cross. During an official press conference at the championships Cash told a Large Battery of newsmen How he broke out in a cold sweat and said the weird sounds had him cowering beneath the sheets in terror for almost 45 minutes. He finally summoned enough Cour age to jump out of bed and dash Down the corridor in his pyjamas to coach Ian Barclay s room where he slept on a Couch. Cash said "1 Don t believe in How sorts of things. It must have been u ghost. There s no other explanation. In was about 7 1$ . My room was pitch Black and All of a sudden i heard some shuffling noises and then some footsteps. "1 sat up startled but nothing was there. Just when i settled Back to my Pil Low it happened again a scraping noise and i could t Bear to look. I broke out in a cold sweat. I was terrified and could t move an Inch. "1 turned the Light on and phoned i he front desk to ask for an explanation but they could not help me. In was the freakiest thing that has Ever happened to me in my life and i boiled Down the corridor to slay on the Couch in my coach s room. I knew i was t hallucinating no drugs nor drink or anything like new zealand or Kelly Evem Dan the player whom Cash had beaten several minutes before the sirhed press conference opened reporters Mouths even wider when he also gave details of another weird occurrence in his room pm Lac ame night. After hearing of Cash s ghost Story Evem Dan said that s incredible. Something weird happened to me last night us Well. 1 was asleep in my room in the same hold and we Waken by the sound of my Shower running. I hopped out of bed to investigate but there was no one
