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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Afterlife of George C. Pimentel
verfasst von : Jeanne (Mrs. George) Pimentel
Erschienen in: Culture of Chemistry
Verlag: Springer US
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Biographical sketches refer to George Pimentel’s 40 years of teaching at the University of California, Berkeley; his cutting edge research—the first chemical laser, the matrix isolation technique; his three years’ service as Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, and many more years of service on numerous committees; his visionary and effective leadership of projects of such long-lasting influence as the ChemStudy high school course and Opportunities in Chemistry (“The Pimentel Report”); and his many awards and honors. People who came in contact with him knew more than all that. We remember his energy and humor, confidence and humility, generosity and stubbornness; his demanding standards and his sentimentality; above all, his enormous enthusiasm for life. And we have been changed by it.
Pimentel’s office always looked chaotic, but he could (almost) always find what he wanted. The champagne bottles testify to celebrations, mostly for his students’ Ph.D.’s. (Photographer unknown; all photographs are from the Pimentel Family Archives).
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