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...statistic Knowles offers about junior faculty members. In the same study, he writes, "Ninety percent of eligible assistant professors (123 of 136) were promoted to associate professor or directly to tenure." Being promoted to an associate professor and being given tenure are far from the same thing; Knowles, a chemist, should know better than to deceive so blatantly by conflating statistics. Even if Knowles is being honest, the percentage of assistant professors who are women is far lower than at other institutions, so the future of women in the faculty would still be far from bright...
...inexpensive and environmentally harmless rust inhibitor (under patent by chemist J. Anthony von Fraunhofer...
DIED. RAY MCINTIRE, 77, Dow chemist who inadvertently invented Styrofoam in a 1944 experiment; in Midland, Michigan...
DIED. JULIAN HILL, 91, Du Pont research chemist whose work in the 1930s led to the creation of nylon, one of the company's most versatile and lucrative finds; in Hockessin, Delaware...
...does the body digest and absorb triglycerides but not a sucrose polyester such as olestra? Both types of molecule, explains P&G chemist Ron Janacek, are too large to pass unaltered through the mucous membrane of the small intestine and into the bloodstream. With triglycerides, an intestinal enzyme known as lipase acts as a kind of molecular scissors, fitting into slots between the fatty acids and snipping them apart. But when there are too many fatty acids clumped too close together, as happens with olestra and other types of sucrose polyester, these slots are concealed and the enzyme cannot...