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Around Myers Hollow
Award-Winning Chemist Discusses Science Education
Dudley Herschbach, the 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Harvard University professor emeritus of science, discussed improving science education across the United States during the Wittenberg Series-sponsored IBM Endowed Lecture in the Sciences, Nov. 9. Titled “The Impossible Takes a Little Longer,” Herschbach’s talk featured observations gathered in the more than two decades of working with students and faculty in the scientific arena, including the practical value of curiosity-driven research and the kinship of science and the humanities as liberal arts. He also presented a technical talk titled “Maxwell’s Demon: From Orienting Molecules to Turning Motor Enzymes,” Nov. 10. Named by Chemical & Engineering News as one of the 75 leading contributors to the chemical enterprise in the past 75 years, Herschbach teaches graduate courses in quantum mechanics, chemical kinetics, molecular spectroscopy and collision theory. Chair of the board of trustees of Science Service, publishers of Science News, he also continues to teach general chemistry to entering freshmen. He is currently researching methods of orienting molecules for studies of collision stereodynamics and means of slowing and trapping molecules to examine chemistry at long wavelengths.
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