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LAST WEEK THE Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach with the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research in molecular motion. At Harvard, however, Herschbach deserves another kind of recognition--for his commitment to undergraduate teaching and community life...
Winning the prestigious award for research that most students--or most people for that matter--would find incomprehensible makes Herschbach all the more an example to the University at large. The lesson is that Harvard's often overriding emphasis on research--exemplified in the way it makes tenure decisions--need not preempt top scholars from a commitment to teaching...
...encouraging that Herschbach, having won recognition for research on "the lunatic fringe" of science, turns out to be the most able to explain his research not only in plain English, but in graphically illustrative terms. He drew an analogy last Wednesday--the day the Boston Red Sox won the American League penant--to show how his work makes it possible to look at the motion of individual molecules rather than groups of them. "Suppose baseball were played by millions of pitchers throwing millions of balls at millions of batters at the same time. No one would be interested because...
...October 16 article entitled "Confusion, Champagne Fill Big Day" incorrectly stated that Georgene Herschbach was congratulated by a confused reporter for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Although she did receive a phone call from a reporter looking for Dudley Herschbach, her husband, that reporter did not believe the award belonged...
...Herschbach said the New York Times coverage "looked very good." He felt that the publicity about his prize will teach people about how professors spend their time. "A lot of papers did emphasize my connection to Currier House and teaching. There's a need for people to understand that that's what professors...