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PLANET OF THE YEAR, Page 63Nobel for a Noble Cause
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.
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.