Word: chemists
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...mother, a practicing Presbyterian married to a chemist, began reading some of Eric's textbooks-and took some notes. "Just listen to this," she says angrily: " 'Evolutionary philosophy is the philosophy of ethical relativism, racism, military aggression.' " Says Mrs. Finger: "I just don't understand it. What's going...
...theoretical chemist of very wide interests, who will interact splendidly with all of the faculty and students in the department," Knowles said yesterday...
...professorship, which enables prominent chemists selected by the Chemistry Department to spend between three months and a year at Harvard, was established last month in memory of Robert Burns Woodward. Woodward, a Nobel Laureate regarded as the greatest chemist of his time, taught at Harvard for nearly 40 years...
DIED. Harold Urey, 87, Nobel-prizewinning chemist whose 1931 discovery with two colleagues of the heavy form of hydrogen called deuterium helped usher in the nuclear age and led to the development of the hydrogen bomb; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. An Indiana clergyman's son who remained a lifelong critic of military force, Urey was an innovative researcher in a wide range of scientific fields. He was considered the father of modern lunar science for his speculations about the moon's geology. During World War II his work in separating the heavy or isotope...
...years of his exile after the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Nabokov obsessively sought to recapture "a Russian something that I could inhale/ but could not see." There are glimpses of that Russian something in Photographs for the Tsar (Dial; 214 pages; $35), the best of the color shots that the chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii began taking in 1909 at the behest of Tsar Nicholas II. Having fascinated the Romanovs with a color slide show at the court at Tsarskoe Selo, Prokudin-Gorskii gained an imperial commission to record the art and people of the Russian Empire. He traveled...