Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore, Rhymester Ogden Nash, 50, interrupted his spring lecture tour long enough to recover from a case of chickenpox (see BOOKS...
...Nash was not always concerned with juggling the elements and comforting confused students. Eighteen years ago he came to Harvard from New York City as a mandolin virtuoso resolved to concentrate in English. A year with English I convinced Nash that composition and literature were not for him, so he tried Chemistry. Here he found his field, and he graduated summa cum laude...
After graduation he worked on his Ph.D. theses under Professor Gregory Baxter. Baxter at that time was studying events in outer space, and Nash's thesis became a study of the gases in meteorites. Today, one of the country's foremost gas analysts, Nash calls his unusual sorcery "Analysis of What Goes Up the Stack...
...Nash completed his thesis with Baxter in 1944, and worked for a year with Professor Urey at Columbia separating from Uranium-238 the atomic bomb-ingredient, U-235. But Nash was mainly interested in teaching so when the war ended, he first spent a year at Illinois, then returned to his alma mater in 1947 as an instructor in Chemistry. He received an appointment as Assistant Professor the following year. And he made an immediate name for himself by riding a bicycle to lectures, armed with a water pistol filled with ammonia to keep the dogs...
...contrast to his robust lecturing, Nash leads a quiet home life. He bought a modern home in Lexington last year, and now devotes his spare time to gardening. Nash finds that frequent revisions of his lectures seriously cut into gardening time, and his project to raise carrots for his two children has largely been abandoned to the local rabbits. Although his material varies to suit each year's students, the last lecture of his courses is always of standard brilliance. Last year, for instance, Nash created an iodine smoke screen to cap his performance in Chemistry 2. The purple vapors...