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...prize in chemistry went to Ernst Otto Fischer, 54, of Munich's Technical University and Geoffrey Wilkinson, 52, of London University's Imperial College of Science and Technology. Working independently, the two men explored organometallic compounds, a marriage of hydrocarbon compounds with metals like iron and chromium. Although such unusual combinations had long been known, it was Fischer and Wilkinson who first identified and explained the structure of a special class of organometallics, called sandwich compounds, that seemed to defy all known chemical rules. In these compounds, Fischer and Wilkinson found, the hydrocarbon molecules hold the metal atom...
...with his typically fierce intensity. "I was -and am-a very determined little fellow," says Solti. By the time he was twelve, the prodigy was giving recitals. At 13 he enrolled in the Franz Liszt Academy, Hungary's leading college of music, where he studied with Ernst von Dohnányi and Bela Bartók. The latter would eventually become one of the century's leading composers, and Solti one of his major interpreters...
...introduction to the correspondence between Salome and Freud, Ernst Pfeiffer, the editor, frames Salome along orthdox lines himself. Her various relationships are said to stem from an initial disappointment, what Lou in her autobiography calls "The Experience of God." Pfeiffer writes: "The little Louise van Salome endowed her God with so intense a reality that His -- inevitable -- failure to appear when first challenged to do so cast the pall of being abandoned by God....over this child and her entire future." Accordingly Lou's successive mentors served the substitute function. From her childhood tutor, a pastor 25 years her elder...
...experimental program was being carried out by Dr. Ernst Rodin, chief of neurology at the Lafayette Clinic. Rodin's project involved using patients committed to state hospitals who had not responded to therapy. Rodin proposed to treat the patients with an experimental German drug or use psychosurgery...
...honors to the senators and Judge Sirica for following through on the case. My only disappointment is that a dirty little political crime should rock the White House more than years of death, destruction, and horror in an infamous, unconstitutional, and frighteningly costly war abroad Ernst Bacon...