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Three Harvard affiliates were named recipients of the 2009 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow yesterday. Professor of Applied Mathematics Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter J. Huybers, and Rebecca D. Onie ’98-’97, co-founder and CEO of Project HEALTH will be awarded a $500,000 grant, which can be used for any purpose. “The award is an extraordinary opportunity: it gives us a forum to talk about [public health] at time when the health care debate is really heating...
...Dominic wanted to work on something that he could talk about at parties, so we worked on this, and others,” said Mahadevan...
...This information was already there in the primary literature, in textbooks, but they do not say it correctly or simply,” said Mahadevan. “They say it’s just surface tension, that there’s no weight or gravity involved, which is incorrect...
...most students, however, Mahadevan and Vella have clarified an everyday encounter in simple, understandable science terms...
...quote Samuel Johnson, ‘familiarity doesn’t mean understanding,’” said Mahadevan. “So that’s the beginning and the end: if you see something everyday it doesn’t mean you understand it. We start with the curiosity of a child—many times we failed, once in a while I succeed. Our contribution was merely to wrap our arms around and focus on the simplest aspects of the problem...