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...apprenticed to a bookbinder-bookseller who took a shine to the likely lad and let him browse through his library. At 20, Michael began to attend scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent on a Grand Tour that lasted 18 months and introduced the blacksmith's boy to many of the greatest intellects of the era. Back in England, Davy established Faraday as superintendent of apparatus...
...golf fans may never even have heard of him-but that's fine as far as Peter Thomson is concerned. A stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 170 lb.), stolid Aussie who 16 years ago gave up a promising career as a chemist to play pro golf, Thomson is frankly anti-American. "I've always been one to keep the Yanks at their distance," he says, and he diligently keeps his own-by refusing to compete on the big-money U.S. tour. But by one standard, at least, Thomson at 35 ranks as one of the game...
Writing in Nature, Physicist Clyde Cowan of Catholic University of America, along with Geophysicist Chandra Atluri and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
When he is not visiting his plants in Europe, Latin America or Africa-an activity that consumes half his time-J. Peter Grace is apt to spend his evenings studying chemistry in his Long Island home. "I'm not a chemist by any means," he explains, "but things change so fast in chemistry today that any man would have to study just as hard as I do to keep up." Grace's studies have paid off for the firm that he heads, W. R. Grace...
Trombone to Test Tube. A quietly disciplined scholar whose interests range from Arctic hunting expeditions to collecting Delft pottery, California-born Monty Spaght earned his way to a Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford with the help of a dance-band trombone. He hated his first job as a research chemist at a Shell refinery but overcame his feelings sufficiently to become the company's top research and development man before he was named executive vice president in 1953. As president of the New York Economic Club, Spaght only two weeks ago introduced British Prime Minister Wilson to a star...