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The Impossible Takes a Little Longer
This talk will deal chiefly with observations and proposals relating to high school science teaching and learning. These stem from opportunities to talk with many students and teachers at science fairs and summer programs, as well as my experience teaching freshmen over a span of 30 years. The key focus is on ways to help students enjoy science as an adventure and to empower them to "take ownership."
Presenter(s): Dudley Herschbach (Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science Emeritus, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.)
Bio: Dudley Herschbach holds a PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University. As a beginning faculty member at UC Berkeley, he undertook "impossible, lunatic fringe" experiments to probe reaction dynamics of molecules in single collisions. That work brought him back to Harvard in 1963 and resulted in a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 (shared with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi).
Dr. Herschbach’s current research is in four areas: developing an unorthodox approach to electronic structure; interaction of molecules with superintense laser fields; experiments producing very slow, cold molecular beams that act like waves; and synthesizing methane (and aiming for higher hydrocarbons) from wet rocks under high pressures and temperatures like those deep in the earth's mantle.
Dr. Herschbach has taught a wide variety of courses, graduate and undergraduate. His efforts to enhance science education and public understanding have centered on Science Service, which publishes Science News and conducts the Intel Science Talent Search and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
FORMAT: Social
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