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...often does on an easy afternoon, Bell Labs Chemist Dennis Rousseau drove to some nearby handball courts last June and played a vigorous game. But this time his purpose was strictly scientific. After returning to work, Rousseau wrung out his sweaty T shirt, collected the perspiration in a flask, evaporated it to a gummy residue, and then carefully analyzed it with an infra-red spectrometer. He found exactly what he was looking for: his sweat exhibited spectral characteristics similar to those of the mysterious and highly controversial substance called polywater...
Ever since it was reported by a Russian chemist named Boris Deryagin in 1962, polywater, or polymerized water,* has been the subject of torrid scientific debate. Deryagin and his supporters in the West contend that it is a totally new kind of water, a form so stable that it does not boil under 1,000° F., does not evaporate, and only begins to freeze at -40° F. One American scientist has even speculated that the strange, sticky substance would, if released from the lab, propagate itself by feeding on natural water, eventually turning the earth into another Venus...
...Honeymoon. Impressed with his integrity and strength, the trustees have just named Lyman, 46, president of Stanford. He succeeds Kenneth Pitzer, a quiet, introspective chemist who served only 19 months and was rebuffed at every turn. Pitzer was partly done in by vindictive student radicals who went to the extreme of drenching him with red paint. His low profile also irked key alumni donors, a bad omen when Stanford was contemplating a major fund drive. Last June, to the trustees' obvious relief, Pitzer resigned. Search committees of faculty, students and alumni took only three months to reach a consensus...
Hornig, a chemist, served as National Science Adviser to President Nixon. During World War II, he served as a group leader at the Los Alamos Laboratories which helped in the development of the atomic bomb. He was acting dean of the Brown School of Education from...
...problem is compounded by widespread ignorance about the hazards of mercury. Until Norwegian Chemist Norvald Fimreite found traces of mercury in fish taken from Lake St. Clair last spring, almost no one suspected that it could be one of the most dangerous water pollutants. Even some scientists assumed that mercury would sink to the bottom of lakes and rivers, pass harmlessly through fish, or kill a few fish without harming other organisms. Until this year, mercury was not listed as one of the substances to be tested for by the Federal Water Quality Administration, the Interior Department agency charged with...