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...cliches of classroom science films -the white-coated chemist making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation music as the sponsoring firm is identified -are familiar to every schoolboy who has slumped, bored but gratefully relaxed, through a reel or two of respite from the chore of learning. High school science teachers have tolerated these technological travelogues presumably because they are "visual aids to education," and the phrase sounds up-to-date; college science profs have ignored them almost completely...
Where Sutherland's high school films treat simple reactions and phenomena, his college productions will be attempts to show visually two of the most basic theories of physical chemistry-the concept of molecular vibration: taught by Nobel Prizewinner Linus Pauling, and famed Chemist Henry Eyring's study of reaction kinetics. The idea that such theories, normally discussed in detail in junior-year college chemistry, might be presented in films belongs to Dr. Thomas Jones of the National Science Foundation, who conceived the project as a Brussels Fair exhibit. But "the U.S. Government is very poor," Chemist Eyring observes...
...months ago Chemist Glenn Seaborg talked warmly of the compensations of his calling: "Stable employment, reasonably good pay, and considerably less pressure and worry than many other groups-such as educators." Sometime in August, Seaborg, who won a Nobel Prize with Physicist Edwin McMillan for discovering plutonium (the pair also discovered berkelium, californium, four other elements), will leave his post as associate director of the University of California's Radiation Lab at Berkeley to become a fulltime educator. New job: chancellor of the university's Berkeley campus (18,981 students), replacing Clark Kerr, now president of the university...
Scattered thinly over the earth's surface are large patches of tektites-glassy lumps up to several inches across, of mysterious and probably unearthly origin. In Britain's Nature, American Chemist Truman P. Kohman, writing from West Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, argues that tektites must come from outside the solar system...
...solid ranking among the top schools in the U.S., Berkeley is the biggest and juiciest chunk of the California orange. Berkeley's trees have had time to grow, and its faculty, mature and luminous, includes six Nobel laureates (among them: Radiation Laboratory Physicists Ernest Lawrence and Edwin McMillan, Chemist Glenn Seaborg). Partisans compare Berkeley, not always defensively, with Harvard, fairly assess their school as stronger in the physical sciences, less impressive in the humanities...