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...workers describe Knowles, who chaired the Chemistry Department from 1980 to 1983, as a highly competent administrator. And they say that his attention to detail is just one of the characteristics that first brought the 55-year-old bio-organic chemist to the attention of University administrators selecting a new dean for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in the early 1980s...
Because no dance department exists, the administration cannot hire any faculty whose specialty is dance. Because the Bakanowsky guidelines require credit courses to be taught by a faculty member, Harvard's best chance of acquiring a credit course in dance would be if a prominent bio-chemist just happened to know a little ballet on the side...
...first known encounter with a buckyball was recorded in 1985 by Richard Smalley, a chemical physicist at Rice University, and Harold Kroto, a British chemist from the University of Sussex who was visiting Smalley's lab. The two scientists were studying what would happen if they heated carbon vapor to about 8,000 degreesC (14,500 degrees F). Unexpectedly, they detected a mysterious new form of carbon. Chemical tests proved two things: 1) the molecules had 60 carbon atoms, and 2) they had no "edges," as chemists call the unpaired electrons that cause atoms to form chemical bonds with...
...rush is on to study the properties of buckyballs and explore their possible uses. Scientists have already concluded that the molecule is remarkably durable. Chemist Robert Whetten of UCLA has fired buckyballs at speeds of 27,000 km/h (17,000 m.p.h.) into miniature walls of graphite and silicon. The sturdy spheres bounced back unharmed...
...candidates who fit the mold of many past Harvard presidents, Medical School geneticist Philip Leder '56 and Harvard chemist Jeremy R. Knowles, were each knocked out for the same reason--lack of administrative experience...