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...DELAWARE. During the first two-thirds of his initial term as Governor of Delaware, everything was breaking right for Republican Russell W. Peterson, 56, a research chemist and former Du Pont executive whose sideline interest in politics had led him into a full-time career. Peterson revamped the state administration, successfully sought an open-housing law, liberalized abortion laws, and capped it all with a coastal zoning law last year that barred polluting industries from establishing waterside plants...
...dating technique was conceived by Chemist Jeffrey Bada of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography while he was trying to date some fossil-laden sediment from the ocean floor. The standard method for determining the age of fossils is the so-called carbon 14 clock, which is based on the ratio of ordinary carbon atoms to atoms of the radioactive isotope carbon 14 found in the specimen. The carbon 14 atoms decay at a known rate and are not replenished after the creature dies; thus the proportion of ordinary carbon to carbon 14 slowly increases. But the carbon clock only works...
Looking for alternatives. Chemist Philip C. Symons, director of the Udylite Co.'s energy development lab, turned to a combination of inexpensive and readily available substances: zinc and chlorine. Other experimenters-notably General Motors' Allison Division -have also built batteries using chlorine and are confident that such batteries, when refined, will have an energy density high enough to make them practical for powering electric automobiles. But chlorine has two serious drawbacks. It is a poisonous gas that could endanger the occupants of a car if it seeped into the passenger compartment and under ordinary conditions it occupies...
When I am arranging all that madness that unleashes the spectators' glee. I am not amused by it. I keep the cool, calm pose of the chemist measuring out his medicine. I put into my pill a gram of imbroglio, a gram of licentiousness, a gram of observation. As well as I can, I grind them all into a powder. And I can tell, almost without fail, the effect that they will produce...When the work is done, what a relief! I regain my freedom. Georges Feydeau...
...experiments-some of them later proved faulty-in scientific journals just to establish priority of discovery. In his unusually candid book The Double Helix, Nobel Prizewinner James Watson confessed to another questionable practice. Determined to unravel the complex structure of the DNA molecule before Caltech's famed chemist Linus Pauling got to it, Watson and one of his co-winners, Francis Crick, deliberately withheld information from Pauling that might have helped their rival in the race for the Nobel...