Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

430. Charming Measurements and Pretty Molecules: The Beauty of Science, the Science of Beauty

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chevy Chase, Washington Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Suzanne H. Black, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

1. “The Geometry of Chance in Madame de Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves,” David L. Sedley, Haverford Coll.

2. “A Pretty Molecule: The Aesthetics of Discovering DNA,” Carol Schilling, Univ. of Pennsylvania

3. “The Molecule’s Mirror: Roald Hoffman and the Aesthetics of Chemistry,” Suzanne H. Black

For copies of abstracts, visit web.ics.purdue.edu/~black0.

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