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Article: Mr. Bubble: Tim Kehoe got his science education while inventing the world's first colored bubbles.(PHYSICAL)(Biography)
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- Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
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- April 20, 2007
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Don't trust everything you read on the Internet, says Tim Kehoe. To prove his point, he refers to a page on the Bubblesphere Web site, which offers tips on teaching science lessons with bubbles. "You can't color a bubble," it says.
Wrong, says Kehoe. And he should know. He and several colleagues are the inventors of colored bubbles!
Kehoe's invention is the end-product of what many people considered a fool's errand. "I interviewed chemists, and they told me, 'You're crazy. You can't color a bubble,'" Kehoe says. But after 11 years of research and the help of some chemist friends, Kehoe achieved his dream: colored bubbles that clean up with a damp cloth ...