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...Glashow synthesized nitrogen tetra-iodide, an extremely unstable compound which explodes when anything is dropped on it, and took to soaking dollar bills in nitric acid. This turns the dollar bill into flashpaper, which burns very rapidly and leaves no ash. Glashow gave this up when it became too expensive...
Eventually, Glashow dropped chemistry altogether. "Chemistry is good for fun--it's like baseball," Glashow said. "It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with...
...Glashow ultimately went to Cornell, where he received a B.A. in physics. "I was mostly interested in avoiding difficult problem sets," Glashow said of Cornell. In 1954 he came to Harvard, where he studied physics under Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger...
...From 1958 to 1966 I was in exile," Glashow said. "I just wandered around teaching, waiting for an offer from Harvard." Since 1966, Glashow has worked on particle physics at Harvard...
...Glashow fears that the startling successes of contemporary physicists may eventually render physics a "complete" science in the same way that he considers chemistry a complete science, lacking any "interesting" questions. He laments the lack of great contradictions such as those evident in early 20th century physics. From such contradictions the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics grew. In the absence of such contradictions, physics proceeds too smoothly, Glashow reasons, and becomes less interesting...