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Georgene Herschbach, wife of Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, has spent a fair bit of her life around laboratories. But she didn't think she was sufficiently expert in chemistry to win a Nobel Prize...
Less than five years after the revolution, "tens of thousands of old bureaucrats" were back to work for the government, said Pipes, the Frank B. Baird Professor of History. In addition by 1921, about 85 percent of the armed forces were officers commissioned in the Tzarist era, he said...
...These cultural exchanges have no politicalvalue," said Richard Pipes, Baird Professor ofHistory. "They always try to put themselvesforward as a peaceful nation, and this createsgood will, but it will have no effect on theirconduct. Russian art is very nice, but Russia isstill in Afghanistan, they still keep Sakharov...
Kenworthy was influenced profoundly by twocourses he took sophomore year on the Soviet Unionthat were taught by Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professorof History Richard E. Pipes and Gurney Professorof History and Political Science Adam B. Ulam. "Iwas prepared to believe what they were saying, buttheir explantions didn't seem adequate," he says."I began leaning towards a much more skepticalview of their approach...
Soviet and international affairs specialists from Harvard briefed President Reagan in Washington before his Geneva summit talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Adam B. Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, and Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes prepared the President for his first face-to-face meeting with the Kremlin...