Mary Richards Is Pale

Pale horse, pale rider done taken my lover away1

“I simply divided my life, cut across it like that. So that everything before that was just getting ready, and after that I was in some strange way altered, really,” said Katherine Anne Porter about her nearly fatal encounter with the Spanish flu. “It took me a long time to go out and live in the world again.” Years later, in a thinly disguised autobiographical novel, she laid out not just her ...

Chemistry: Richards and Boyer

remains to be done in order that perfect certainty may be attained, nevertheless the outcome must be regarded as promising in pointing toward an adequate and convenient method of separating gallium from other metals. Three fractional samples of the chloride discussed in the previous section were analyzed, using the usual methods employed in Harvard University in order to make a preliminary dete...

Beyond the pale

When I left the Ivory Tower for San Francisco State University in 1988, one of my mentors said “You’re leaving the priesthood.” Not many people put it that baldly, but indeed the two most obvious drawbacks young scientists see in my choice are a loss of prestige, and the assumption that competitive research must be abandoned. Research has indeed been more of a struggle since I moved to SFSU. Bu...

Alfred Newton Richards.

Theodore William Richards