Word: clintons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hufton would begin her tenure in the fall term of the 1987-88 academic year, Clinton said...
...Clinton said she thought Hufton would decide to come to Harvard. "She's spoken very warmly about the Women's Studies Committee," she added...
...offer. If she decides to come to Cambridge, Hufton would head the Committee on Women's Studies, which monitors women's courses throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and would oversee an all-honors Women's Studies major if it is approved, said Assistant Professor of History Catherine Clinton '73, a committee member...
...event that came to be called the "well-known accident," Clinton Davisson and his colleague Lester Germer in 1925 inadvertently stumbled on experimental proof of a crucial aspect of quantum theory. Davisson noticed that a stream of electrons beamed at a crystal of pure nickel was diffracted, a phenomenon that is characteristic of light waves. Electrons had been thought to exist only as sub-atomic particles until, just a few years before Davisson's observation, the newly developing quantum theory suggested that electrons could behave as both particles and waves. Here was proof, and it won Davisson a Nobel...
...There's a growing amount of interest in the field, and it's a small step now--I don't expect it to be traumatic," said Assistant Professor of History Catherine Clinton, a member of the committee...