Alice recognizes native Nobel Prize winners with billboards

[TexasTowelie]

The city will have four new billboards going up this week showcasing and honoring the two Alice-born natives and Noble Prize winners James Allison and Robert Curl Jr.

The four billboards will be located from east to west on highway 44 and 281, from east to west on highway 44 over highway 359, from north to south on 281 and on highway 44 coming into Alice from Corpus Christi.

"The billboard project started before COVID-19 and was pushed back due to the multiple public health priorities," City Manager Michael Esparza said. "Alice is a small town with less than 20,000 in population and to have two Nobel Prize winners is something remarkable and city leaders wanted to highlight that."

Robert F. Curl Jr.

In 1996, Robert F. Curl Jr. won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, during the time he was affiliated with Rice University, Houston. The prize was recognized for the motivation: "for their discovery of fullerenes."

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James P. Allison

More recently in 2018, James P. Allison won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Allison was recognized for his work at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston.

The prize motivation "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation."

Read more: https://www.alicetx.com/story/news/2021/03/18/alice-recognizes-native-noble-prize-winners-billboards-heres-what-know/4733303001/
(Alice Echo-News Journal)

[LeftInTX]

1. Who knew?

[TexasTowelie]

2. You do now!

[douglas9]

3. The Iconoclast

Jim Allison has always gone his own way—as a small-town-Texas kid who preferred books to football, and as a young scientist who believed the immune system could treat tumors when few others did. And that irreverence led him to find a potential cure for cancer.



https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/jim-allison-and-the-search-for-the-cure-for-cancer/