Congratualations to Roald Hoffmann, winner of the 2009 American Chemical Society’s James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpretting Chemistry for the Public. Hoffmann is currently the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Letters in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Read the full story in C&E News (access restricted to Cornell [...]
Entries from February 2009 ↓
Congratulations to Roald Hoffmann
February 23rd, 2009 — Chemistry
Springer e-books now available
February 13th, 2009 — New and Notable
As part of a recent deal with Springer, Cornell University Library has processed our first major installment of over 10,000 e-books! This includes: Chemistry and Materials Science – 600 titles added Computer Science – 2800 titles added Earth and Environmental Science – 600 titles added Engineering – 1500 titles added Mathematics and Statistics – 1200 [...]
A Physics Alum Remembers
February 6th, 2009 — Astronomy, Chemistry, General News, Libraries, Physical Sciences Library, Physics
Recently I received this brief memoir from David J. Ritchie, PhD Physics 1972. I hope that you enjoy reading it. Dr. Ritchie is now at Fermi Lab. http://www.svs.com/djr01/index.html …..Pat Viele, Physics & Astronomy Librarian   ….In Fall 1966, I started as a graduate student in physics at Cornell University. I specialized in high energy physics. [...]
New Books at the Library- Browse Online!
February 4th, 2009 — New and Notable
Would you like to keep up to date with new book purchases at the library? Most libraries have display shelves which highlight new books, but you can also browse online and even set up an RSS feed to be alerted of new books monthly. Go to New Books at Cornell Under the Location drop-down menu, [...]