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Enrico Clementi, a theoretical chemist at IBM's San Jose research laboratory, was familiar with the mathematical descriptions of the actions of the electrons, nuclei, atoms and molecules that participate in a chemical reaction. He was certain that a solution of all the equations involved would give a mathematically precise picture of any chemical reaction. But how could he possibly manage the hundreds of billions of forbidding mathematical steps required for the solution? To an IBM man, the answer was obvious...
Cotzias has his eye on a more remote and desirable goal than the treatment of a single disease, even such a common crippler as Parkinson's. He holds with Chemist Linus Pauling (TIME, May 3) that biochemical deficiencies in the brain may masquerade as brain-tissue degeneration. The deficiencies may result from underlying damage to neurons (the electric regulators of the nervous system) or other causes, but either way they produce "electronic breaks," so that nerve impulses do not get through. Dr. Cotzias wants to find more ways of repairing more kinds of electronic breaks...
Doug Hardin, the captain, is a Group II quantum chemist who play an instrument called the viola da Gamba in a Baroque trio. He spent half of last summer working for the Atomic Energy Commission and half training with the U.S. Olympic Team at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Doug likes the poetry and art of William Blake and has filled the walls of his Winthrop House room with prints of Blakian angels and devils. "Dauntless Doug," as Coach McCurdy calls him, is the team's foremost expert on the philosophy and psychology of running...
Shortly after he was appointed president of Rice University in Houston seven years ago, Chemist Kenneth Pitzer was asked whether he planned to pattern his school after Caltech or M.I.T. Neither, replied Caltech Graduate Pitzer. "I intend to model it on Stanford...
...daughter of a chemist and granddaughter of a Methodist minister, Judy was working as a 19-year-old file clerk for the Maryland Casualty Co. in Baltimore (which, as a native, she pronounces "Ballimer") when she met young Spiro Agnew, then a night student at the University of Baltimore Law School. She recalls their first date, when they went to the movies and later drank chocolate milkshakes at an A & W rootbeer stand. They were married 18 months later, in 1942, two days after he had graduated from Army Officers Candidate School as a second lieutenant...