Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James B. Conant '13 was moonlighting...as president of Harvard University. Rather than focusing on faculty meetings or office hours, the world-renowned chemist's attention was focused on the development and testing of the atomic bomb...
...blitz E-mail." Indeed, the group was nothing like the Coalition members uncharitably described by the Washington Post in February 1993 as "poor, uneducated and easy to command." Jessop, 54, is a senior project engineer at Eastman Kodak. His deputy Rahm Goswami, 44, is a research chemist with a Ph.D. A similar meeting a month earlier in Charleston, South Carolina, was attended by several lawyers and physicians -- all in business suits. Another misconception is that the Coalition is exclusively white. Two blacks came to the meeting in Rochester. "I don't look at it as a color thing," explained Angie...
Finally, the replacement of retiring Corporation member Charles P. Slichter '45, a physicist and chemist at the University of Illinois, with James R. Houghton '58, the CEO of Corning, Inc., was a signal to some observers that the University's highest governing board was becoming too corporate and less academic...
During the course of the special, Herschbach emphasizes his belief that chemistry is central to modern life. "Making new things is what [chemists] do best. As a chemist, I see chemistry everywhere I look," he says in the program. "The good old days weren't so good, and they weren't so much...
...special, filmed on location, takes Herschbach to a suburb of Stockholm to visit the home and recount the achievements of chemist Alfred Nobel, who developed nitroglycerine, the active ingredient in dynamite...