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Seven years ago, Hosea Williams, the son of a Georgia dirt farmer, gave up a $14,000-a-year job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("I was a very., very good chemist") to join Martin Luther King Jr. Williams has since become one of the country's leading civil rights leaders. He was field marshal for the Meredith Mississippi march and the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events...
Harnessing solar energy is hardly a new accomplishment. Nearly 22 centuries ago, the Greek mathematician Archimedes is said to have temporarily saved Syracuse from Roman conquest by setting the invading fleet aflame with numerous large mirrors. In the 18th century, the pioneer French chemist Lavoisier produced enough heat with 52-inch-wide lenses to power his experiments. Though Lavoisier's work was cut short by the French Revolution (he was guillotined), his history has not discouraged contemporary French scientists-notably Physical Chemist Felix...
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the changes wrought by the occupation than two wartime jokes that Author Walter Maass-a Vienna-born chemist who worked with the Dutch resistance-retells in his book. In 1940, when the occupation began, the Dutch stores were so well stocked that German officers spent much of their time shopping for delicacies unavailable at home; a British agent in a German uniform was caught, the story goes, because he wasn't carrying any packages. In 1945, the humor was more of the gallows variety: facing a German firing squad, two Dutch boys smile when they...
Chemical Revolution. Ghiorso, Nuclear Chemist James Harris, Finnish Physicists Matti Nurmia and Kari Eskda, the same team that discovered element 104, suggested that the new element be named hahnium, in honor of Otto Hahn, the German chemist who in 1938 discovered nuclear fission. Ghiorso also took the occasion to disagree with a prior-and tentative -claim by Russian physicists that they had discovered element 105. The Lawrence team, he explained, had been unable to duplicate the Russian experiment, which used less sensitive equipment and produced uncertain results...
...obvious need, a plastic that decomposes naturally, may soon become a reality. An international team of scientists, led by University of Toronto Chemist James E. Guillet, has designed a plastic that Guillet claims will self-destruct when exposed to sunlight, but will remain intact if it is kept indoors...