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...larger effects of Darwin's writing: "[T]he most important way in which Darwin altered his era was by getting people who did do science to ask a new kind of question. Some scientific revolutions have surprisingly small ideological aftershocks; Michael Faraday's discovery that electricity and magnetism are the same thing was as large a discovery as any in the history of science, but it had a paltry aftereffect...For a new scientific theory to become a model in its time, vastly influential outside its immediate claims, it has to release thinking people from a bond that they...
English scientist Michael Faraday and German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may seem to be unlikely bedfellows, but their legacies have been combined to surprising effect. A series of concerts by the Fromm Players at Harvard last weekend celebrating “60 Years of Electronic Music” demonstrated how classical music has absorbed technological advancements and how this influential fusion has opened up new possibilities for artistic creation...
DIED. SIR HARDY AMIES, 93, Savile Row designer who clothed Queen Elizabeth for four decades; in Langford, England. London's most successful couturier (with model Faraday, above), he was a self-described snob who disdained strapless gowns and resisted critics who would have the Queen look more chic, insisting her understated style suited her. "I'm for elitism and its survival," he said...
...disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets of San Francisco, Faraday and Company, McMillan & Wife) and in precision-movement teams (Chase, Hawaii Five-O). --TIME...
...study of reaction dynamics, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 with Herschbach. He has also been awarded the Royal Chemical Society’s Faraday Medal and the National Medal of Science...