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Article: Scientific recognition puts professor in his element
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 18, 1994
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VISITORS to the University of California at Berkeley should not
be surprised to encounter the Nobel prize-winning scientist, Glenn
Seaborg, wandering around in an unusually cheerful mood. He may
even be humming the classic Tom Lehrer song, to the tune of "A
Modern Major-General".
"There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, / And hydrogen
and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium . . . / These are the only ones
of which the news has come to Harvard, / And there may be many
others but they haven't been discarvered."
For the 81-year-old professor can now reflect that Lehrer's
lyrics would read very differently, were they to be written today.
They would, among other things, have to include ...