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...family of Nobel Laureate Dudley R. Herschbach occasionally admonishes him with "B.J.," but it's not a nickname...
Practical jokes were also a favorite of Benjamin Franklin, Herschbach says, and he is clearly following in the great inventor's footsteps...
...idea of hanging the Blue Boy in the alcove," Herschbach says, referring to the famous painting by Thomas Gainsborough. "Late one night a couple of my students and I hung it. [Woodward] didn't like it. He replaced it with a note...
...Herschbach and Woodward continued to joke about the painting for many years. Woodward named Herschbach as the culprit in a magazine article years later...
Woodward was not upset by the painting, but the fact that it was a cheap reproduction, Herschbach says. Woodward scornfully stated "at Harvard, copies of any kind should not be tolerated...