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Nov07 NUCLEUS Aa4b DED UN 18 O 98 F http://www.nesacs.org N Y O T R E I T H C E N O A E S S S L T A E A C R C I N S M S E E H C C TI N O CA March 2010 Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 7 N • AMERI Monthly Meeting Richards Medal Award Meeting at Harvard Richards Award to Professor Richard N. Zare Book Review Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth’s History Reviewed by Mindy Levine Summer Scholar Report By Rita E. Ciambra, Eva Vennmann, Katherine H. Schiavoni, and Ekaterina Pletneva My Internship Experiences By Rajeev Chorghade 2 The Nucleus March 2010 The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, Inc. Contents Office: Anna Singer, 12 Corcoran Road, Burlington, MA 01803, 1-800-872-2054 Book Review 4 (Voice or FAX) or 781-272-1966. __________________________________________ e-mail: [email protected] Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth’s History Any Section business may be conducted via the business office above. 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(Photo courtesy of Linda Cicero, Stanford News Serv- 617-332-5273, romysimon(at)mindspring.com ice) Trustees: Deadlines: Peter C. Meltzer, Esther A. H. Hopkins, May 2010 Issue: March 11, 2010 Michael E. Strem Summer 2010 Issue: June 15, 2010 Councilors Alternate Councilors Term Ends 12/31/2010 Thomas R. Gilbert Timothy B. Frigo Pamela Nagafuji Mark Froimowitz Robert Lichter David Cunnigham Michael Singer Mukund Chorghade The Nucleus is published monthly, except June and August, by the Northeastern Section of the American Term Ends 12/31/2011 Chemical Society, Inc. Forms close for advertising on the 1st of the month of the preceding issue. Text Doris I. Lewis C. Jaworek-Lopes must be received by the editor six weeks before the date of issue. Mary Burgess Patrick M. Gordon Editor: Michael P. Filosa, Ph.D., ZINK Imaging, Inc., 16 Crosby Drive, Building 4G, Morton Z. Hoffman Lawrence Scott Michael P. 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The Nucleus March 2010 3 Book Review Corporate Patrons ($2000+) Abbott Bioresearch Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth’s Genzyme Lyophilization Service of New England History, Susan Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton and Jürgen Rullkötter Merck (Oxford University Press, 2009), 376pp., ISBN: 9780195176193, Novartis Institute for Biochemical $35, (hardcover) Research Reviewed by Mindy Levine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Schering Corporation Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, MA 02139 Sepracor Serono Reproductive Institute Where does oil come from? How did most part, succeeds in entertaining Vertex Pharmaceuticals ancient cultures preserve mummies? readers while conveying knowledge of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals What is the cause of deadly “red tides” an intriguing and constantly evolving Patrons ($1000-$1999) in oceans? scientific field, that of organic geo- Aptuit The answers to these wildly dis- chemistry. Broad Institute parate questions (and many more) are The book is divided into eleven Creagen Biosciences found in the book Echoes of Life: What chapters: Estate of Wallace Gleekman Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth’s 1. Molecular Informants: A Chang- Irix Pharmaceuticals History by Susan Gaines, Geoffrey ing Perspective of Organic Chem- PCI Synthesis Eglinton, and Jürgen Rullkötter. The istry Shasun USA book provides an overview of the vari- 2. Looking to the Rocks: Molecular Sirtris Pharmaceuticals ous scientific fields in which “fossil Clues to the Origin of Life Strem Chemicals molecules” can provide key informa- tion and understanding about ancient 3. From the Moon to Mars: The Donors ($300-$999) earth. It is not, however, a rigorous sci- Search for Extraterrestrial Life Cambridge-Major Laboratories entific text; nor is it a text for the non- 4. Black Gold: An Alchemist’s Guide Medicilon Inc scientist. Rather, the book combines to Petroleum Organix anecdotes about the scientists with 5. Deep Sea Mud: Biomarker Clues Peptech Corp actual stories of scientific discovery. to Ancient Climates SAPA-NE The result is a narrative that, for the 6. More Molecules, More Mud, and the Isotopic Dimension: Ancient Environments Revealed 7. Microbiologists (Finally) Climb on Board 8. Weird Molecules, Inconceivable Microbes, and Unlikely Environ- mental Proxies: Marine Ecology Revised 9. Molecular Paleontology and Bio- chemical Evolution 10. Early Life Revisited 11. Thinking Molecularly, Anything Goes Each chapter covers one area in which organic geochemistry has pro- vided an improved scientific under- standing. For example, Chapter 4 investigates how the study of “fossil molecules” has improved our under- standing of the source of petroleum, and how different environmental con- ditions can impact oil production. Chapter 5 discusses fossil molecules that have been discovered in deep-sea continued on page 14 4 The Nucleus March 2010 Monthly Meeting Biography Richard N. Zare is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Sci- The 904th Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the American ence at Stanford University with an Chemical Society appointment in the Department of 2010 ACS Richards Medal Award Meeting Chemistry and a courtesy appointment Thursday – March 4, 2010 in the Department of Physics. He is a graduate of Harvard University, where Harvard Faculty Club he received his B.A. degree in chem- 20 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA istry and physics in 1961 and his Ph.D. 5:30 pm Social Hour in chemical physics in 1964. In 1965 he became an assistant professor at the 6:15 pm Dinner Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 8:15 pm Richards Award Ceremony but moved to JILA, University of Col- Mallinckrodt Building, Pfizer Lecture Hall - MB23, orado at Boulder in 1966, where he 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA. remained until 1969 while holding Dr. John McKew, NESACS Chair, Presiding joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Reflections on Theodore William Richards Physics and Astrophysics. In 1969, he Prof. Roy G. Gordon, Chair, Richards Medal Committee was appointed to a full professorship in Introduction of the 41st Richards Medalist the Department of Chemistry at Professor Mark A. Johnson, Yale University Columbia University, becoming the 2010 Richards Medalist
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  • Prof. OTTO WALLACH
    APRIL 18, 1931] NATURE 601 many will regret the passing of an institution vations for thirty years. Four Cassinis in all which has played a prominent part in t.he scientific were successively at the head of the Observatory, life of the French capital. Situated about half a their combined periods of office extending over a mile south of the Luxembourg, the Observatory hundred and twenty years. was built in the reign of Louis XIV. to the designs With the nineteenth century many changes of Claude Perrault, the famous architect of the were introduced, and the Paris Observatory has Louvre. It was begun in 1667 and completed had a succession of directors whose names have in 1671-four years before the erection of Green­ become household words. From 1830 until 1853, wich Observatory-and Dominique Cassini, the Arago was the director, but it was his successor, Italian astronomer, was appointed the first super­ Leverrier, who became the real organiser of the intendent. Observatory. Newcomb, who stayed in the Obser­ In spite of the eminence of its designer, the vatory as a guest of Delaunay during the Com­ building wn.s not well adapted for its purpose, mune in 1870, said Leverrier's work "was not for as Grant says, "No means were provided in dissimilar to that of Airy at Greenwich ; but he the construction of the building for enabling the had a much more difficult task before him, and astronomer to observe the celeRtial bodies at all was less fitted to grapple with it ". Early in altitudes, by means of instruments sheltered 1870, Leverrier indeed had become so unpopular under its roof, nor was it possible to repair the that he was removed from office; but in 1872, on omission, on account of the enormous thickness the tragic death of Delaunay, he was reappointed of the walls ".
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