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...Professor of the History of Science Allan M. Brandt, who also holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School; computer scientist Barbara J. Grosz, dean of science at the Radcliffe Institute, which Faust currently heads; Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69, who was considered to serve as dean of FAS last spring; and Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson are also mentioned as possible candidates for the post, the sources said...
...Simmons said that while the next dean need not be a scientist, he or she “has to be somebody who understands science and science funding” and who “has some understanding and sympathy for the scientist...
...prominent place that science will likely take on the FAS agenda over the coming decade does not necessarily mean that the next dean must be a scientist, Interim President Derek C. Bok wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...hippie days of the 1960s drew to a close, the British scientist James Lovelock began to formulate a fittingly hippie (yet still innovative) theory about the earth. He believed that the living and non-living parts of the earth form a single, self-regulating system. When some change occurs within the “system,” some other part of the system reacts to restore the original conditions. He called the theory the Gaia hypothesis, after Gaia, the Greek goddess of earth...
...convinced the king to send an army to defend the city of Orl?ans from the invading English. Leading these troops into battle, St. Joan later emerged victorious from the siege. The tests on the relics took around a year to complete and were led by Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist at the Raymond Poincar? Hospital in Garches, near Paris. A leading figure in matters medieval and macabre, Charlier has used forensics to investigate the deaths of other historical figures. Following a series of tests in 2006 on the remains of Agn?s Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, whose premature death...