{"id":168,"date":"2006-06-26T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/06\/26\/surprise-surprise\/"},"modified":"2006-07-15T19:34:48","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T23:34:48","slug":"surprise-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/06\/26\/surprise-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"surPRISE, surPRISE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2006\/06\/DSCF0682rc.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last Monday, cartoon voice actor [the Simpsons] <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dudley_R._Herschbach\">Dudley R. Herschbach<\/a> gave a most[ly &#8211; another post] excellent talk on &#8220;Einstein as a Student&#8221; 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, &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/1986\/herschbach-lecture.pdf\">Molecular Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Reactions,<\/a>&#8221; is about the then young field of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemical_kinetics\">chemical kinetics<\/a> that is, going beyong what combines with what &#8211; getting a &#8220;moving picture&#8221; of how molecule A interacts with molecule B. His work was both experimental &#8211; actually shooting A&#8217;s at B&#8217;s &#8211; and theoretical.This was part of a new summer program called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.priselink.harvard.edu\/\">PRISE<\/a>. Well worth the price of admission [free] and well worth the time. I&#8217;ll keep you abreast of future editions.<br \/>\nNote to WordPressinados. This thing not only has bugs, but different bugs in different themes. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday, cartoon voice actor [the Simpsons] Dudley R. Herschbach gave a most[ly &#8211; another post] excellent talk on &#8220;Einstein as a Student&#8221; 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, &#8220;Molecular Dynamics of Elementary Chemical Reactions,&#8221; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}