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Article: The Other Dr. Flake: SOME WORDS WITH A MAN WHO KNOWS HIS SNOW--BUT HATES THE COLD.(Cold Front/Case Study)(interview of Kenneth Libbrecht)(Interview)
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- December 1, 2004
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Byline: Brad Wetzler; Kenneth Libbrecht
Think you're obsessed with the cold white stuff? Dr. Kenneth Libbrecht, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, has you beat. The 46-year-old author of The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty, as well as the forthcoming Little Book of Snowflakes, spends all of his time theorizing about, making, and examining snow. We caught up with him in his Caltech office, where the thermostat was set at a balmy 72 degrees.--BRAD WETZLER
WHY SNOWFLAKES? Just about every solid thing around us is made up of crystals. But most crystals are too hard to grow in a lab. Ice, on the other hand, is ideal ...