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During a prolific career that has produced an astounding bibliography of about 600 publications, Robinson has found leisure time to scale many of the mountain peaks in Switzerland, Norway, and New Zealand. This zeal for mountaineering couples well with his interest in photography. He is a formidable chess player and a lover of music. His wife, also a chemist of note, aided him In his career while raising his family, a son and a daughter. 

So far operations research has utilized the talents of individuals from a wide spectrum of fields ranging from chess players and physical and social scientists to mathematicians, pure and applied. Imagination and a good background in technical excellence are the basic elements in this choice of individuals. A significant consequence of all this is an opportunity for broad intellectual contacts and cross-fertilization of ideas in many diverse fields. 

It seems worthwhile giving one possible example of nonconservative schemes. A cross scheme was very popular and much applicable in recent decades. Any scheme of this structure can be written on a chess grid by regarding e, p, rj to half-integer nodes (sj+1/2.fj+1/2) 3-nd v, x to integer nodes of the grid at hand. 

The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. But we know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. 

If you are having tronble with synthesis problems when you first encounter them, the worst thing you can do is to give up and say Oh, well. I m not good at synthesis problems. As the conrse moves on, this attitnde will slowly kill your grade in the course. To see why this is so, let s compare organic chemistry to a game of chess. 

In chess, you cannot possibly memorize every possible orientation of aU of the pieces and then memorize the best move for each of those possibilities. There are too... 

When you see a synthesis problem for the first time, you are not expected to immediately know the answer. I cannot stress this enough. It is so common for students to get overly anxious when they see synthesis problems that they cannot solve. Get used to it. This is the way it is supposed to be. Going back to our chess analogy, you don t need to make a move as soon as it is your turn. You are allowed to think about it first. In fact, you are supposed to think about it first. So, how do you begin thinking about a multistep synthesis problem where you do not immediately see the solution The most powerful technique is called retro synthetic analysis. This means that you analyze the problem backward. Let s see how this works with an example ... 

Gustafson DH, Bosworth K, Hawkins RP, et al. CHESS a computer-based system for providing information, referrals, decision support and social snpport to people facing medical and other health-related crises. Proc Anna Symp Comput Appl Med Care 1992 161-5. 

Gustafson DH, Hawkins RP, Boberg EW, et al. CHESS 10 years of research and development in consnmer health informatics for broad populations, inclnding the underserved. Int J Med Inform 2002 65 169-77. 

Chess is, however, succumbing to computers. Only the very best human chess players can compete on a level with the best chess-playing computers, and every year the computers become more powerful. It is unlikely that the chess champion of the world will be human for any of the third millennium. At the end of the second millennium, the best designers of organic syntheses were unquestionably human. For how much longer will this pre-eminence continue ... 

Our research in this area was supported by DOE (Grant No. DE-AC02-77ER04254). The X-ray measurements were performed either at the CHESS synchrotron facility, Cornell University, or in the X-ray Diffraction Facility of Northwestern University s Materials Research Center, supported in part by NSF under Grant No. DMR-MRL-76-80897. 

Fig. 6.5(a) OR gene expression. M, maternal and P, paternal DNA strands 1 2, chromosomes from neurones with differential cis/trans regulation (M/P) of each DNA strand (from Chess et al., 1998). [ = OR gene locus = suppressed regulatory element]... 

Chess A., Simon I., Cedar H. and Axel R. (1994). Allelic inactivation regulates olfactory receptor gene-expression. Cell 78, 823-834. 

Ebrahimi F.A. and Chess A. (2000). Olfactory neurons are interdependent in maintaining axonal projections. Curr Biol 10, 219-222. 

Edward came often to my chamber at night. My sister Margaret or whichever ladies were in waiting that day would curtsy and slip away. Sometimes he liked to talk, or play chess, or drink... 

Haber gradually recovered much of his old dash and joie de vivre. He relaxed with chess and the newly fashionable detective novels and took friends on a boat trip up the Nile or invited them to his summer house near Lake Constance. Waiting with friends to be served in a busy restaurant, he grabbed a passing waiter by the coattails and begged with all the drama of his youth, Could you bring me a coffin How much is a cemetery plot ... 

Fritz Stern. Einstein s German World. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 1999. Source for the richest English-language portrait of Haber the man. Source for Breslau patriots Virchow and Max Planck Einstein quotations help with Einstein s divorce Ostwald ignores Einstein chess and detective novels. 

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