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...mother, a practicing Presbyterian married to a chemist, began reading some of Eric's textbooks-and took some notes. "Just listen to this," she says angrily: " 'Evolutionary philosophy is the philosophy of ethical relativism, racism, military aggression.' " Says Mrs. Finger: "I just don't understand it. What's going...
...science -including astrology and medical quackery, as well as the "science" of creationism. Says Wayne Moyer, executive director of the National Association of Biology Teachers: "We have done a botched job of teaching evolutionary theory, and we had better accept the creationist challenge to clean up our act." Adds Chemist Russell Doolittle: "At first I couldn't understand the gullibility of people. It took me a while to understand that the average American is not equipped to combat this sort of thing. The tragedy of it all is the state of science education in the country...
...theoretical chemist of very wide interests, who will interact splendidly with all of the faculty and students in the department," Knowles said yesterday...
...professorship, which enables prominent chemists selected by the Chemistry Department to spend between three months and a year at Harvard, was established last month in memory of Robert Burns Woodward. Woodward, a Nobel Laureate regarded as the greatest chemist of his time, taught at Harvard for nearly 40 years...
DIED. Harold Urey, 87, Nobel-prizewinning chemist whose 1931 discovery with two colleagues of the heavy form of hydrogen called deuterium helped usher in the nuclear age and led to the development of the hydrogen bomb; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. An Indiana clergyman's son who remained a lifelong critic of military force, Urey was an innovative researcher in a wide range of scientific fields. He was considered the father of modern lunar science for his speculations about the moon's geology. During World War II his work in separating the heavy or isotope...