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...view from space also offers support for a scientific theory that is becoming the paradigm of the new environmentalism. First proposed by British inventor and chemist James Lovelock, this theory, called the Gaia hypothesis, argues that the earth functions as an organism and that life processes regulate the planet to maintain its habitability. According to Gaia, no single species, not even humanity, is necessary to the functioning of the biosphere...
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, there is probably an innocent explanation for the fact that Stanley Pons has dropped out of sight, hiding his whereabouts from the press and his employers. Granted, the University of Utah chemist has been under pressure since March 1989, when he and British colleague Martin Fleischmann said they had created fusion in a jar. Skeptical scientists doubted that the pair had tamed the sun's power source -- at room temperature. The complaint was not just that they had announced their discovery at a press conference rather than in a scientific journal but also that...
...fact is that most pharmaceutically useful compounds are made the old-fashioned way, by combining reagents in a laboratory flask. Last week the Royal Swedish Academy returned to the roots of the science. Elias James Corey, 62, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is an organic chemist's chemist, a master of the art of making biological molecules one painstaking step at a time...
...Chinese folk medicine, taken from the ginkgo tree, that is now widely administered as a treatment for asthma and circulation disorders. But he was also honored last week for a broader intellectual achievement: pioneering "retrosynthetic analysis," an approach to building molecules that Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel- winning chemist himself, likens to a chess game with nature...
...grew up with the idea that women could have a career and that was important in counteracting the atmosphere of the '50s," Gould says over lunch at Adams House, where she is a member of the Senior Common Room. "My father hoped all along that I would be a chemist, but there was no way I was going to do that...