Friends of the Library Newsletter Vol. Part of the fun of the library is found in the hunt. Recently retired from UW's chemistry department after 35 years, Dr. John Moffat is still an active researcher. The author of more than 240 publications, he is this year's winner of the Canadian Catalysis Lectureship Award and is the editor of Theoretical Aspects of Heterogeneous Catalysis .
Science is somewhat like an unfinished brick wall.
Joseph Bileeki lived and worked in what to him was utopia. He enjoyed his research on the anisotropy of the polarizability of benzene, in no small measure since he believed that the topic was sufficiently obscure that no one else could possibly be engaged in similar work. He could not continue his research without money to buy benzene. So he decided that he would apply for a research grant and, armed with the application, he sat down one evening to fill in the blanks. In a panic he grabbed his lab books and set out to write a paper.