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...they enlisted 58 scientists to discuss what was unknown in their fields. The co-editors quickly discovered that "the more eminent they were, the more ready to run to us with their ignorance." Some of the contributors are indeed eminent: Molecular Biologists Francis Crick and Sir John Kendrew. Chemist Linus Pauling (all Nobel laureates), Anthropologist Donald Johanson, Astronomers Sir Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, Physicist John Wheeler. The conundrums they pose are also notable. How did the universe come into being? Why do we sleep? How are galaxies formed? What is consciousness? Why does a species become extinct? The problem...
...Linus Pauling, you mean...
...another, kissing has been prevalent since primitive times, but has developed mostly in the West. Among the Greeks and Romans, parents kissed their children, lovers and married persons kissed each other, and so did friends of the same or different sexes. Martial complains in one of his epigrams: "Yet, Linus, thou layest hold on all thou meetest; none can thy clutches miss; but with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss." The early Christians obeyed St. Paul's injunction to "greet one another with a holy kiss" until the symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal...
Lipscomb said that studies done by Linus Pauling, a double Nobel prize-winner, first interested him in borane chemistry because "everything he said was wrong," but added that all early theories about borane structures were simplistic and incorrect...
Triple Crown. Lipscomb, 56. learned of his award when his students burst into his cluttered office to congratulate him. He was inspired to do the work that led to his Nobel, he recalls, when as a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, he heard his professor, Linus Pauling-who has since won the Nobel chemistry and peace prizes-explain how boron compounds were bound together chemically. Intrigued by what seemed an incomplete explanation, he used Pauling's own techniques to study the compounds further. He discovered that boranes, the complex chemicals that combine boron and hydrogen molecules...