How San Diego became a magnet for Nobel Prize-winning scientists
She lived in England during the age of Dickens, taught school in Illinois as America expanded west, wrote for a scrappy newspaper in Detroit after the Civil War and spent her later years in San Diego sharing a fortune.
This year’s recipients will receive, or share, $1.14 million and get a gold medal. The medals are so valuable that UC San Diego put special security precautions in place when one of its economists, Harry Markowitz, donated his Nobel — 185 grams of 18 carat gold — to the school in 2017. He also donated $4 million.
And years before he arrived at La Jolla’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Francis Crick co-discovered the molecular structure of DNA, a finding he made with James Watson in 1953 and for which they shared a 1962 Nobel.Many are responsible for turning San Diego into the sort of place that nurtures and attracts people with Nobel-worthy talent. Few have been as influential as Scripps, who promoted the city until she died in the 1932 at age 95.
It evolved into the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which rose from obscurity to prominence during World War II to be an important cog in the Navy’s network of research centers. Luka Spear hands out flowers before a paddle out for Scripps oceanographer Walter Munk at La Jolla Shores after Munk’s death in 2019.
Many of them became engineers who helped the Navy shift from the age of propeller-driven airplanes to jet aircraft. By the late 1940s, the Cold War with the Soviet Union deepened the need for scientists and engineers who worked on nuclear power, jets and missiles. In October 1957, when the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, the Space Age was underway.
The other early faculty recruits included Maria Goeppert Mayer, who won the Nobel in physics in 1963, and astronomer Margaret Burbidge, who won the National Medal of Science in 1983.
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