Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Williams is only one of many, many characters Berendt has on file. There's also Luther Driggers, an eccentric chemist who carries on his person a vial of poison powerful enough to kill every man, woman and child in Savannah; Joe Odom, a ne'er-do-well lawyer who lives in other people's houses and steals electricity from next door when the power company cuts him off; and, of course, the irrepressible Lady Chablis...
This year for the first time, the Alliance included a panel discussion of alternative science careers. Panel participants included Channel 7 meteorologist Mishelle Michaels and Melissa O'Meara, a forensic chemist from the Massachusetts Crime...