Alexander Von Humboldt Fellows

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Andrew Bowie, Anthony Joseph Arduengo III, Azar Gat, Bernhard Korte, Bogumi Brzezinski, Charlotte Klonk, Christof Heyns, Colin Pittendrigh, Derek Lowe (chemist), Dieter Soll, Fakhri A. Bazzaz, Godfrey Gumbs, James Cullen Martin, Johann van der Westhuizen, John D. Petersen, John Lennox, Julius Rebek, Jyotindra Jain, Leonard Mlodinow, Leroy Cronin, Mahendra Pal Singh, Martin Gibbs, Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke, Omer Bartov, Philip Russell (physicist), Richard R. Schrock, SM Razaullah Ansari, Yuri Estrin, Zhenis Kembayev. Excerpt: Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III is the Saxon Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alabama and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany. He is notable for his work on chemical compounds with unusual valency, especially in the field of stable carbene research. Anthony "Bo" Arduengo was born in 1952 in Tampa, Florida. He grew up in the Atlanta, Georgia area. His father was a pressman and mechanic with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and instilled his son with an interest and skill for all things mechanical and scientific. By the age of 16, he and his father had built his first car from miscellaneous parts. The car was registered as street-legal and road-worthy. With some re-engineering, the car was later fitted to run on alternate fuels including alcohol and hydrogen (which would foretell Arduengo's professional research involvement with President Bush's 2003 National Hydrogen Fuel Initiative (HFI) and United States Department of Energy's Chemical Hydrogen Storage Program by more than 30 years). Arduengo attended Bouldercrest and Meadowview Elementary Schools, and Walker High School. In 1969 he left high school with enrollment in Georgia Tech's Joint Enrollment Program for High School Students (JEPHS). He obtained his...