Word: mendelsohn
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...Mendelsohn, who is in his 70s, will not fade into retirement. He will continue to teach a freshman seminar on the atomic bomb, and he is working on material about cloning as a social and political phenomenon, which may become a book. (His working title? “The Historian and the Clones.”) He will also continue a longtime fascination with the Middle East, embarking on a project this October to study the efficacy of non-governmental efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...made the decision [early in my career] to spend a few hours of every week of my life making the world a better place,” said Mendelsohn, who is a pacifist...
...Oren S. Harman, an assistant professor in Israel who studied under Mendelsohn seven years ago, wrote in an e-mail that “Everett believed and believes in human beings. In their capacities for harmony and good deeds and in their genuine spirit for the making of a better world...
...Harrington—who first came into contact with Mendelsohn as an undergraduate—called the list of Mendelsohn’s former students a “who’s who” in the field of history of science...
...Faculty had gotten pretty angry at Larry Summers. There was real tension, real distrust, dislike,” Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who is retiring this year after more than 50 years at Harvard, said. “Derek had to overcome that. In part he did it by being the father figure...