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Last Monday, cartoon voice actor [the Simpsons] Dudley R. Herschbach gave a most[ly – another post] excellent talk on “Einstein as a Student” Why have an actor talk about Einstein? Well it seems that in his troubled youth, Herschbach won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His Nobel Lecture, “Molecular Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Reactions,” is about the then young field of chemical kinetics that is, going beyong what combines with what – getting a “moving picture” of how molecule A interacts with molecule B. His work was both experimental – actually shooting A’s at B’s – and theoretical.This was part of a new summer program called PRISE. Well worth the price of admission [free] and well worth the time. I’ll keep you abreast of future editions.
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