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“My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.”

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Dudley R. Herschbach

Dudley R. Herschbach is a renowned chemist born on June 18, 1932. He made significant contributions to the field of chemical kinetics and molecular reaction mechanisms, particularly in the study of free radical reactions. Herschbach was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 for his outstanding achievements in chemistry. more

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