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In the floor you’ll find the tomb of an Irish colonel, Hugh Beatty, a soldier of fortune who commanded the Lagos regiment of the Portuguese army in the late 18th century, and who must have been held in very high esteem to have been awarded such a prestigious final resting place.
Students at less prestigious British universities will soon be able to take courses with such Oxford and Cambridge luminaries as physicist Steven Hawking, literary critic Terry Eagleton, and paleontologist Richard Dawkins, through a national system of video linkups.
For the second time in six years, the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton has vetoed the appointment of a professor of science studies with, apparently, impeccable credentials.
And partly you rely on expert judgments: If a prestigious journal has agreed to publish the clay theory, it's probably wrong.
By this time Bela's reputation was established, and in 1983, he received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship—the “genius award.”