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Scribes gave honorable mention awards to Akhil Reed Amar's The Bill of Rights and Allan Farnsworth's Changing Your Mind: The Law of Regretted Decisions, both published by Yale University Press...
...Baekeland, plastics pioneer --Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer --Rachel Carson, environmentalist --Albert Einstein, physicist --Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television --Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist --Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist --Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst --Robert Goddard, rocket scientist --Kurt Godel, mathematician --Edwin Hubble, astronomer --John Maynard Keynes, economist --The Leakey Family, anthropologists --Jean Piaget, child psychologist --Jonas Salk, virologist --William Shockley, solid-state physicist --Alan Turing, computer scientist --James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists --Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher --The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators...
...Under the most severe misapprehension," the paper wrote, "was an unidentified sightseeing freshman who tried to leave the Farnsworth room through a full-length pane of glass. The glass, apparently designed with this in mind, withstood the shock, but the freshman suffered assorted head bruises and a bloody nose...
What they found, according to Cole, is that "students choose first places like carrels, small study tables, and the comfortable chairs in the Farnsworth Room...
...Farnsworth creates first all-electronic television system...