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Finally, the replacement of retiring Corporation member Charles P. Slichter '45, a physicist and chemist at the University of Illinois, with James R. Houghton '58, the CEO of Corning, Inc., was a signal to some observers that the University's highest governing board was becoming too corporate and less academic...
During the course of the special, Herschbach emphasizes his belief that chemistry is central to modern life. "Making new things is what [chemists] do best. As a chemist, I see chemistry everywhere I look," he says in the program. "The good old days weren't so good, and they weren't so much...
Many of the experts say they are surprised that chemical weapons have not been used in a major attack before. The ingredients for making them are available commercially and can be put together by almost any competent chemist. Muslim zealots, for example, are increasingly a younger generation of angry men who have the education and sophistication to construct weapons their fathers and uncles never dreamed...
...massive explosion on Mars millions of years ago blasted into orbit rocks that have landed on Earth during recent decades, University of California at San Diego chemist Kurt Marti said today. Marti claims that he has confirmed that a 40-pound meteorite that landed in Nigeria in 1962 was a piece of the distant planet. He explained that gas bubbles trapped inside the meteorite were matched with the atmosphere that the U.S. Viking spacecraft found on Mars in 1976. Marti said further testing showed that the meteorite was wandering in space for about three million years before it landed...
...reason for all this consulting, cooperation and vetting is based on this premise: One man, even if he is, say, a brilliant chemist and the dean of the Faculty at Harvard, doesn't have the breadth of knowledge, experience and perspective to make the decision all by himself...