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Robert B. Woodward, Donner Professor of Science, has won the first Pope Pius XI science medal for his achievements in chemical synthesis.
One of the world's leading organic chemists, Woodward accomplished the complete synthesis of chlorophyll in 1960 after working on the project four years. "The discovery," Woodward said, "has no practical applications; it is pure science. It just helps us to gain understanding."
Woodward's synthesis of chlorophyll will help biologists understand how this compound enables green plants to perform photosynthesis--the conversion of carbon dioxide and water into simple sugars, starches, and other carbohydrates.
The handling of the Berlin situation also lacks depth. One article merely summarizes the events of the summer. The other provides a good, but hardly novel synthesis of Khrushchev's position. In short, the authors address the apathetic and blissfully ignorant ("The Berlin crisis arose at the beginning of last...
The synthesis of these twin problems of finances and excessive emphasis on brains finds no explicit statement, but woven through Bender's entire report is a line highly critical of the entire Faculty. The reason we are in danger of becoming an upper class institution is that costs have not...