Word: glashow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, there are the Nobel Laureates--most of whom are dead, since Harvard carefully lists all those who have graced its halls dating back to 1914. But among the Nobel Laureates still teaching at Harvard are Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow; Gade University Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen--another physicist and one of the most vocal academic opponents to President Reagan's Star Wars program; Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, one of the most accessible professors at the University; and Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert, chair of the Biology Department...
Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow said that he was "absolutely the delighted" Law would be returning to the department...
...wonderful choice," Glashow said. "She's an old friend of the Physics Department and I'm absolutely delighted to have her return to our fold...
...GLASHOW never provides a real sense of what people, ideas or occurences shaped his thought, and hence the reader is left with no insight into the intellectual stimulants found in a scientific community. Interactions would have been a valuable book if it had begun to describe how a high-powered academic community functions, how competition and co-operation blend to produce great advances in knowledge. Instead, Glashow describes a puzzle of particle physics on one page, goes skiing with a colleague or his latest girlfriend on the next page and presents a possible solution on the next...
Scientific autobiographies are not about to disappear. One hopes that future partakers of the genre will not look to Glashow for inspiration...