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The observation of an anomalous Hall effect in altermagnetic ruthenium dioxide
The Hall effect is a conduction phenomenon discovered by physicist Edwin Herbert Hall that describes the development of a transverse electric field in solid materials carrying electric current that are placed in a magnetic field perpendicular to this current. In the 1950s, Martin Karplus and Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger showed that an anomalous Hall conductivity could also be observed in ferromagnetic metals with broken time-reversal symmetry.
While ferromagnetic materials have magnetic moments that align parallel to applied magnetic fields, antiferromagnetic materials have antiparallel magnetic moments. Past studies have showed that antiferromagnets do not possess the same magneto-electronic properties as ferromagnets and do not exhibit an anomalous Hall effect. So far, most studies focusing on the anomalous Hall effect were thus conducted on ferromagnets.  
Researchers at Beihang University, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have recently observed an anomalous Hall effect in ruthenium dioxide (RuO2), a material with a classic rutile crystal structure that has recently been found to have an antiparallel magnetic order. Their findings, published in a paper in Nature Electronics, could open interesting possibilities for further research on materials with a so-called compensated antiparallel magnetic order, such as RuO2.
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Yugoslavia as photographed by Martin Karplus, 1955
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Romani women in Skopje, Macedonia, 1955. Martin Karplus
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I met 2013 Nobel laureate winner Dr. Martin Karplus from Harvard University today after his lecture for the Schulten Memorial Colloquium at my university! I usually find talking to professors, let alone introducing yourself to them very intimidating; but Martin is one of the friendliest professors that I’ve ever met and is very humble about his work.
I also asked him about his experiences working chef Joël Robuchon (not many STEM professors can say that they’ve done something like that) in France, and he told me some really cool stories! Skipping physics discussion was worth it, and I can see why my sister has so much respect for him. (She hosted him at her school, the University of Chicago back in March).
More professors need to be like Martin. Just saying.
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Theodor Adorno Narrative for World Literature 304 By: Ashley Singh
      Parents Maria Calvalli-Adorno and Oskar Wiesengrund welcomed to the world their son Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno on September 11, 1903 in Frankfurt, Germany. His mother, Maria, was a musically talented singer of Italian-Catholic descent. His father Oskar was an assimilated Jewish wine merchant.
      A part of Adorno’s youthood was having to grow up and experience World War 1 from July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918. During this time:
“after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand …Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). Thanks to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, World War I saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.” (https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history)
A part from a demoralizing loss of Germany in WW1, the Spanish Flu struck and became a global pandemic in 1918. Growing up, Adorno was a musically and academically gifted child. In the early to mid 1920s – at the  age of 17, onward – Adorno enrolled in the Frankfurt University where he studied philosophy, psychology, sociology, and music. He initially seemed destined for a career in music as he took his childhood talents into his unversity years and spent 2 years in Vienna studying under composers such as Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. His interested later shifted to the philosophy/sociology/psychology spectrum.
      In 1930 Adorno began working at the Institute for Social Research under the direction of Max Horkhiemer at the University of Frankfurt. In the springtime of 1934, Adorno was barred from teaching, so left his homeland; his Jewish heritage forced him to go into exile to escape a rising Nazi Germany.
      He went to Oxford where he taught at Merton College for 3 years. Before going to New York City, he married Gretel Karplus –  a scholarly woman that ran in the same intellectual circle as Adorno (they had no children together). Voyaging to New York, then New Jersey in 1938, he was musical director of the Princeton Radio Research Projects for some years. In 1941 Adorno ventured to Berkeley, California and became the co-director of the Research Project on Social Discrimination at the University of California until 1948.
      What was happening in the world around this time was World War 2 (September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945):
“The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict–World War II–which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. Among the estimated 45-60 million people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final Solution,” now known as the Holocaust.” (https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history)
Although he wrote many books during this time, he was seemingly unhappy during his exile. After the war was over and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights made an appearance in 1948,  Adorno returned to the University of Frankfurt in 1949 where he took up a chair position in the philosophy and sociology department. He established himself as a leading German intellectual and a central figure in the Institute of Social Research and later became the Institute’s director in 1958 after Horkheimer.
      The Frankfurt School was founded in 1923, it had a far reaching influence and has even helped shape universities in their development during that time. Prominent first generation Critical Theorists consisted of:
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
Theodor Adorno (1903-1969)
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
Friedrich Pollock (1894-1970)
Leo Lowenthal (1900-1993)
Eric Fromm (1900-1980)
The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory tackled issues such as: modernity, capitalist society, social emancipation, and critique of mass culture – using the lens of Marxist philosophy. Adorno stayed a professor at the University until he died due to a heart attack on August 6, 1969 in Visp, Switzerland.
Some of the major themes in Adorno’s corpus include:
Art’s survival in a capitalist world
Marxian question whether art can contribute to the transformation of this world.
His vision of the status of morality and moral theory within this fully enlightened earth.
Mass entertainment – Adorno analyzed social phenomena as manifestations of domination.
Based on Freudian-Marxist theory, Adorno’s analyses stressed the importance of the individual and shunned authoritarianism.
Objective forces determining the experience of an individual in society – as seen in his 1951 work Minima Moralia where he writes about his personal experiences during World War 2.
Writers that have Influenced Adorno:
Walter Benjamin
Karl Marx
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Max Horkheimer
Immanuel Kant
Writers that Adorno had influenced:
Jürgen Habermas
Axel Honneth
Bernard E. Harcourt
Works Cited
Augustyn, Adam et al. “Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2019, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Wiesengrund-Adorno. Accessed 31 Mar. 2020.
“Critique 2/13: Horkheimer and Adorno, Critical Theory and the Actuality of Philosophy.” YouTube, uploaded by Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, 26 Sept. 2016, https://youtu.be/ZwWlM6JSyo4.
Fagan, Andrew. “Theodor Adorno.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://www.iep.utm.edu/adorno/. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020
Matustik, Martin Beck. “Jürgen Habermas.” Encyclopædia Britannic, 14 Jun. 2019, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jurgen-Habermas. Accessed 30 Mar. 2020
Onion, Amanda, et al. “World War I.” History, 28 Feb. 2020, https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history. Accessed 3 Apr. 2020.
Onion, Amanda, et al. “World War II.” History, 1 Oct. 2019, https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history. Accessed 3 Apr. 2020.
Savage, Robert. “Adorno’s Family and Other Animals.” Thesis Eleven, vol. 78, no. 1, Aug. 2004, pp. 102–112, doi:10.1177/0725513604045419.
Schuetze-Coburn, Marje. “Theodor Adorno.” University of Southern California Libraries Research Guide, 30 May 2018,https://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=235057&p=1560062. Accessed 4 Apr. 2020
Setterfield, Ray. “The 1918 Flu Pandemic.” On This Day, 21 Mar. 2020, https://www.onthisday.com/articles/the-1918-flu-pandemic. Accessed 3 Apr. 2020.
“Theodor W. Adorno.” YourDictionary. LoveToKnow. https://biography.yourdictionary.com/theodor-w-adorno. Accessed 16 Mar. 2020.
“Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” United Nations, https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights. Accessed 24 Mar. 2020.
Zuidervaart, Lambert. “Theodor W. Adorno.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 26 Oct. 2015,https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/#1. Accessed 31 Mar. 2020.
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Gerhard Wagner Harvard Medical School
As a physics undergraduate student in Munich, Gerhard Wagner worked on an esoteric atomic measurement of iron in a protein molecule. Then he heard from his supervisor, who was on sabbatical at Bell Labs in New Jersey. There, the same molecule, hemoglobin, the iron-rich protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells, was being probed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
The technology caught Wagner’s attention. Why measure a single parameter, as he was doing, when you could measure many aspects at once with NMR and learn so much more, he asked himself. Little did he know, but that thought launched a lifetime of NMR research.
Wagner hadn’t planned on a career in academia. He was born in Czechoslovakia just as World War II ended. His German-speaking family became refugees, fleeing to nearby Bavaria and starting again with nothing. In science, Wagner also helped develop a new field from scratch.
When he graduated from Technical University in 1972, he found a sweet spot in Switzerland—home of his girlfriend, skiing, and a PhD training position with Kurt Wüthrich, one of the early scientists to use NMR on proteins and who later won a Nobel Prize. He spent most of the next 14 years in Zurich.
At ETH Zurich, Wagner launched a family and a career in NMR that soon brought him to the attention of the world’s top structural biologists. At the time, protein structures could only be determined by X-ray crystallography. Wagner helped develop suites of techniques for the fledgling NMR analyses of proteins that made it possible to assign resonances and solve their structures.
Early on, he observed one of the NMR advantages: protein dynamics. “I found a lot of mobility in proteins,” he says. These days, NMR is well known for its unique ability to reveal thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of proteins. More than 40 years ago, those protein wiggles were nearly impossible for some to imagine.
Wagner was testing the new techniques on a cow protein with stable ring-shaped parts (called aromatic side chains in chemistry parlance). Analyzed by NMR, the rings flipped when the temperature went up or down, opening the protein structures by several Ångströms. The unexpected results were controversial.
Wüthrich planned to talk about the new data at a physics conference in Germany. Behind the stage, conference organizer and Nobel Laureate Max Perutz didn’t believe the results and objected to the presentation. Perutz famously had solved the structure of hemoglobin, which also sported aromatic side chains. Another prominent scientist, Robert Huber, who later also was awarded a Nobel Prize convinced Perutz to let the talk proceed as planned, Wagner says. (Later, the same data provided a test bed for the development of molecular dynamic simulations by Martin Karplus.)
After a one-year postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Wagner continued his work in Wüthrich’s lab in a postgraduate teaching and research position called privatdozent. Soon it came time to present Wagner’s latest work, the NMR structure of cadmium-bound metallothionein, a small protein that binds zinc or other metals in plants and animals. Wagner got a worried call in the middle of the night from for Wüthrich. It seems the NMR structure was very different from a crystal structure of the same molecule being presented at the same meeting. Wagner and his coworkers had applied a new technique, proton cadmium correlations, to determine the topology and structure. He scrambled to review the data. It all checked out correct.
“It was also an early time in crystallography, so people could still make mistakes,” Wagner says. “It gave me some visibility. It showed NMR could do a structure and get it right.” Later, the two NMR and crystal teams published a joint paper showing agreement between their final metallothionein structures.
NMR eventually became an accepted method for solving protein structures, especially of smaller proteins in lower concentrations. Wagner took a faculty position at University of Michigan in 1987. There he just had time to develop the first triple resonance experiments, a strategy that is now the basis for most protein NMR, before he was recruited to Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1990.
“When I came to Harvard 25 years ago, I came as an expert in NMR,” Wagner says. “I thought I should also have an important biological project.” He looked for areas with little research and landed on translation initiations, or how a transcribed gene is turned into a protein.
After a gene is transcribed into RNA, a large protein complex grabs hold of the messenger RNA tail to prepare to make a protein. In a 2003 Cell paper, Wagner’s lab reported the structure of the first two proteins in this complex (eIF4E and eIF4G) and how they enable the ribosome to bind to the 5’ end of mRNA and start making protein.
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Above: In this NMR image, a complex of two proteins (eIF4E in red and yellow and eIF4GI in blue) attach to the 5’ cap structure of mRNA, and eIF4G forms a “molecular bracelet” around the N-terminus of eIF4E, prompting the initial event of ribosome recruitment to start making a protein. Courtesy G.Wagner
“Then the idea came that oncoproteins have long 5’ UTRs,” or untranslated tails, Wagner said. “Our hypothesis is that nature developed long tails to make it more difficult to translate dangerous proteins.” Other labs have shown that the long tail effectively down regulates some proteins. In cancer, such controls on the oncoproteins may be broken, he says. Restoring them may be a new way to treat cancer.
Wagner and his collaborators screened for small molecules to inhibit some of the translation initiation proteins his lab had characterized. Now they have a major program to improve the compounds they found with anti-cancer activity.
These days, NMR remains well suited for characterizing smaller proteins and to catch the gymnastic moves of molecules in their active biological roles. In particular, Wagner believes NMR has potential to illuminate RNA in complex with other proteins. “Another area where NMR may have some impact is proteins that are only partially folded,” he says.
For example, the nuclear factor of resting T cells has a long unstructured tail hanging in the cytoplasm of cells. The tail has many phosphorylation sites, keeping it in a resting state. Working with another DFCI collaborator, Wagner’s group developed a new NMR technique (known as direct 15N detection) to elucidate a key internal step in activating T cells, which is important to fight infections but also needs to be regulated to prevent rejections of organ transplants. In a collaboration with Haribabu Arthanari at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the team identified a key molecular interaction in activated T cells. The Wagner lab is developing small molecules that inhibit the interaction, ideally targeting a protein-protein interaction with fewer side effects than current anti-rejection drugs.
In another project, Wagner’s group has found a better way to study membrane proteins in a more natural environment. A team led by postdoctoral fellow Mahmoud Nasr improved the design of tiny nanodiscs, a popular model of cell membranes used to study proteins entering cells.
The Wagner lab’s modification of the design made the nanodiscs more stable using some fancy chemistry bonding membrane scaffolding proteins. The resulting covalently circularized nanodiscs can be precisely sized from 9 to 50 nanometers and used to study viruses and other membrane interactions by adding a receptor. In their first published demonstration in 2017 in Nature Methods, the team and its collaborators observed polioviruses opening a putative pore and injecting genetic material through the nanodiscs, as the virus might do when it infects a cell.
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Left: A cartoon illustrates the poliovirus (ball) attaching to its receptor CD155 in the membrane interior of a DNA-corralled nanodisc. Right: The EM micrograph series shows the sequence of the poliovirus engaging with the membrane, ejecting RNA through the nanodisc. Then the empty virus leaves behind a putative ejection pore.
When Wagner moved on to study HIV and the process by which it fuses with a cell membrane, the nanodiscs became too big for NMR. The ongoing work requires cryo-EM analysis. Collaborating with William Shih’s lab at the Wyss Institute, Wagner’s group developed a larger nanodisc design with the lipid bilayer inside DNA scaffolding. He sees many possibilities ahead with the new technology, including nanodisc complexes.
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Virtual Medicine for Real Patients
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Nobel laureate Martin Karplus is hoping to develop a vaccine against HIV. However, although the emeritus professor of chemistry has a lab at Harvard University, and is collaborating with biophysicist, Arup Chakraborty, at nearby MIT, they perform many of the experiments in the virtual world.
Their research centers on the small number of people infected with HIV whose immune systems have…
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MIT Electricity Initiative awards 10 seed fund grants for early-stage electrical power exploration
Supporting promising electrical power exploration throughout a vast selection of disciplines is 1 of the core tenets of the MIT Electricity Initiative (MITEI). Each individual spring for the previous 10 many years, the MITEI Seed Fund Program has awarded funding to a decide on group of early-stage electrical power exploration tasks. This spring, 10 tasks were being awarded $150,000 every single, for a complete of $1.5 million.
“Providing guidance for fundamental exploration, primarily exploration in its early levels, has verified to be an extremely fruitful way of fostering innovative interdisciplinary remedies to electrical power problems,” says MITEI Director Robert Armstrong, the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering. “This calendar year, we gained 76 proposals from applicants with innovative concepts. It was 1 of the most competitive teams of proposals we’ve viewed.”
To day, MITEI has supported 161 tasks with grants totaling $21.4 million. These tasks have included the total spectrum of electrical power exploration regions, from elementary physics and chemistry to plan and economics, and have drawn from all 5 MIT educational institutions and 28 departments, labs, and facilities (DLCs).
This year’s awardees symbolize three MIT educational institutions (Science, Engineering, and the Sloan Faculty of Administration) and seven DLCs, with exploration specialties ranging from chemical engineering to administration to aeronautics and astronautics. Five out of the 10 awarded tasks focus on advancing electrical power storage systems, a key spot for enabling the transition to a minimal-carbon long term.
Moving ahead on thoroughly clean electrical power objectives
Valerie Karplus, the Class of 1943 Occupation Progress Professor and assistant professor of world economics and administration at MIT Sloan, has been awarded a grant for a undertaking concentrating on the response of industrial corporations to electrical power-efficiency procedures. Utilizing thorough data from corporations in China, Germany, and the United Kingdom, she will look into what characteristics of firms determine how plan affects manufacturing prices and firm competitiveness. “We know pretty tiny about how plan interventions interact with an organization’s structure and procedures to in the end affect electrical power use behaviors,” says Karplus. “This undertaking will uncover how the high-quality of administration in electrical power-intense producing firms affects the simplicity of meeting—and potentially exceeding—energy and environmental plan objectives.”
Karplus’s fellow Seed Fund grantees are all operating toward acquiring these objectives as nicely, in a wide variety of approaches. Troy Van Voorhis, the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry, and Yogesh Surendranath, the Paul M. Cook Occupation Progress Assistant Professor of Chemistry, are 1 such team. They were being awarded a grant to guidance their growth of new, a lot more economical graphene-based catalysts for gasoline development. If thriving, their perform could aid the thoroughly clean generation of fuels capable of storing electrical power in chemical bonds for afterwards release.
Interdisciplinary exploration applies diverse ability sets to electrical power problems
Fikile Brushett, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Audun Botterud, a principal exploration scientist in the Laboratory for Facts and Decision Methods, are 1 of various groups leveraging interdisciplinary collaboration. By combining their know-how in battery know-how and in electric power grid operations, Brushett and Botterud are building new laboratory-scale methods of testing the efficiency and economic viability of grid-scale batteries underneath reasonable working situations. “Implementation of application-knowledgeable methodologies can empower improved evaluation of today’s systems and can guide the growth of following-generation battery devices for electric power grids with rising shares of renewable electrical power,” says Botterud.
Yet another interdisciplinary undertaking from this year’s spherical of grants focuses on building novel computational resources that aid the design and style of new molecules. Dependent on initial-ideas modeling and data-driven models that leverage offered literature, scientists Heather Kulik, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Youssef Marzouk, an affiliate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, are developing a novel method that predicts the behavior of new molecules and updates predictions on the fly working with modern advances in equipment discovering and uncertainty quantification. The target is to use laptop simulation relatively than laboratory testing to guide the design and style of molecules optimized for selected employs. Their initial resources focus on optimizing lubricant molecules essential to rising vehicle gasoline economy.
Creating on previous successes
A key target of the MITEI Seed Fund Program is to provide guidance that will empower early-stage electrical power exploration tasks to get root and thrive about the lengthy expression. Amos Winter season, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, alongside with colleagues Ian Marius Peters, a exploration scientist in the Photovoltaics Investigate Laboratory, and Tonio Buonassisi, an affiliate professor of mechanical engineering, gained a 2016 seed grant for a cost-optimized solar desalination system. The team has since gained more funding from Tata Projects, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, UNICEF, and USAID to even more build their know-how, which has led to pilot plants in Chelluru, India, and in Gaza. The target is to carry thoroughly clean, electrical power-economical, and cost-successful remedies to regions with a absence of thoroughly clean drinking water. Tata Projects is arranging to commercialize the know-how.
A seed grant also led to observe-on funding for Noelle Selin, an affiliate professor in the two the Institute for Facts, Methods, and Culture and the Division of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), and Susan Solomon, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Scientific studies in EAPS. Underneath a 2013 seed grant, they identified new approaches to evaluate the good results of emissions-command measures personalized to minimize particulate pollution. Selin and collaborators are continuing that perform underneath a 2015 grant from the U.S. Environmental Security Agency.
In some scenarios, seed grants have catalyzed observe-on funding for different applications of the original developments. For instance, Laurent Demanet, an affiliate professor of utilized mathematics, not long ago gained funding from the U.S. Air Pressure Place of work of Scientific Investigate to guidance perform he has been doing underneath a 2013 seed grant concentrated on improving methods of locating subsurface oil and gas reservoirs. In that perform, he developed new mathematical strategies for developing maps of the subsurface from passive seismic surveys, where the only supply of waves is the ambient seismic noise of the Earth. The Air Pressure is intrigued in this line of perform since of the likely of the similar mathematical strategies for passive plane navigation.
Spinoff firms have also emerged from seed grants. Cambridge Electronics, for instance, developed from Tomás Palacios’s 2008 seed grant perform on nitride-based electronics. “The MITEI seed funding for our gallium nitride electric power electronics undertaking was key to acquiring that exploration exertion started out in our group,” says Palacios, a professor of electrical engineering and laptop science. “It authorized us to get some original effects that we then employed to get even more funding from other sponsors.” On graduating, the student foremost the undertaking — Bin Lu SM ’07 PhD ’13 — and colleagues started out Cambridge Electronics, which Palacios says is “on keep track of to make a real effect on electrical power use by shifting the way electric power is processed in the entire world.”
Funding for Seed Fund grants will come mainly from MITEI’s Founding and Sustaining Associates, supplemented by presents from generous donors. A total checklist of the 2017 awarded tasks and groups is below.
“3D printed ultrathin-wall cellular ceramic substrates for catalytic waste gas converters.” Nicholas Fang, Division of Mechanical Engineering “Can tiny, good, swappable battery EVS outperform gas powertrain economics?” Sanjay Sarma, Division of Mechanical Engineering “Computational design and style and synthesis of graphene based gasoline forming catalysts.” Troy Van Voorhis and Yogesh Surendranath, Division of Chemistry “Designer electrocatalysts for electrical power conversion: Catalytic O2 reduction, CO2 reduction, and CH4 activation with conductive steel-organic and natural frameworks.” Mircea Dinca, Division of Chemistry “Electrokinetic suppression of viscous fingering in electrically improved oil recovery.” Martin Bazant, Division of Chemical Engineering “Administration abilities and firm responses to electrical power efficiency procedures.” Valerie Jean Karplus, Sloan Faculty of Administration “Following generation quantitative structure residence relationships for lubricants from equipment discovering and advanced simulation.” Heather Kulik, Division of Chemical Engineering, and Youssef Marzouk, Division of Aeronautics and Astronautics “PMU data analytics system for load product and oscillation supply identification.” Konstantin Turitsyn, Division of Mechanical Engineering, and Luca Daniel, Division of Electrical Engineering and Computer system Science “Predicting technological efficiency and economic viability of grid-scale flow batteries.” Audun Botterud, Laboratory for Facts and Decision Methods, and Fikile Brushett, Division of Chemical Engineering “Slim-movie steel-organic and natural framework membranes for electrical power-economical separations.” Zachary Smith, Division of Chemical Engineering
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MARTIN KARPLUS BARES HIS SOUL
MARTIN KARPLUS BARES HIS SOUL
  Martin Karplus is Harvard’s Theodore Williams Richards Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. In 2013 he shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with two colleagues. He maintains that the only real chemistry he does is in the kitchen.
Karplus, 87, is at work on a memoir. The book will tell a story that moves from a sunny boyhood in Vienna (he was born in 1930, the scion of an accomplished Jewish…
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