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Andrew G. Myers, a chemistry professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a leading synthetic organic chemist has accepted a tenured position in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) following an unusually abbreviated review process...
Myers was officially offered his Harvard appointment March 20 and accepted within a week in a letter to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, himself an accomplished organic chemist...
...Harvard folks turned down an exclusive party for the Elgin Marbles. (We dig.) Freshmen, juniors and seniors rubbed elbows in Harrod's and traded stories in the Tube. But with miserable weather, arduous museum-visits and third-rate eats, Ivy League breakers needed chemical relief and patronized the local "chemist" for great U.K. drugs (unavailable in the U.S. without prescription...
Back in his school days, when Grove was studying fluid dynamics, he might have been able to tell you. As a young chemist, Grove had to master probability theory--it was the only way to predict how some molecules and atoms will behave. One of the ideas that holds probability theory together is that it is possible to understand the odds of an enormously complex event as a series of yes-or-no questions. The theory works by taking the most complicated series of events and boiling them into binary choices: either this can happen or that can happen. This...
...world, one whose climate will change in unpredictable ways. Yet for all the factors working against any sort of agreement in Kyoto, the last hope of controlling that change may depend on what happens there this week. Even the feeblest of agreements is better than none, says M.I.T. atmospheric chemist Michael Molina, who shared a 1995 Nobel Prize for helping unravel the tangentially related problem of ozone depletion. "The larger issue is to make sure the process begins," he says. "We'd better get started...