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During the course of the special, Herschbach emphasizes his belief that chemistry is central to modern life. "Making new things is what [chemists] do best. As a chemist, I see chemistry everywhere I look," he says in the program. "The good old days weren't so good, and they weren't so much...
...Herschbach, a professor of chemistry at Harvard since 1963, shared the Nobel Prize in 1986 with John Polanyi and Yuan Lee for their study of chemical reactions using molecular beams...
...special, filmed on location, takes Herschbach to a suburb of Stockholm to visit the home and recount the achievements of chemist Alfred Nobel, who developed nitroglycerine, the active ingredient in dynamite...
Back at Harvard, Herschbach discusses with colleagues the life and work of Woodward at a dinner party co-hosted by Herschbach and Roald Hoffman, a professor of chemistry at Cornell...
...Herschbach closes the program with a wish list for future develop- ,ments in chemistry, including new forms ofcarbon and a method to fix damaged genes. He drawsa comparison between chemistry and Aladdin'sgenie...