Pioneer Youth

Don s pioneer youth had a profound influence on his character and unique approach to science. He was born in the village of Tedrow in northwestern Ohio. By 1899 economic conditions forced his father to give up farming there and move, first to the lumbering camps of northern... 

Pioneer has done a peculiar thing, which is to put a Southern Comfort cocktail, the Yellow Desert Rose, on its menu. Southern Comfort is not something I had thought about since it crossed my lips thirty-six years ago, at age fifteen. It made fine drinking in high school, and then, after one night of too much, it was gone—the sweet booze of youth. 

The discovery of radioactivity a century ago opened up a new field in science, that of the atomic nucleus, which culminated 40 years later in the discovery of fission, and its practical consequences in the form of nuclear weapons and nuclear power reactors. That remains still die focus of news media as it influences international politics and national energy policies. However, nuclear science has contributed much more to our daily life as it has penetrated into practically every important area, sometimes in a pioneering way sometimes by providing conqiletely new solutions to old problems from the history of the universe and our civilisation to methods of food production and to our health from youth to old age. It is a fascinating field continuously developing. Nuclear chemistry is an important part of this. 

Quoted in Alfred Lubrano, Pioneering Year Youth Culture. . . Civil Rights. . . the Suburbs. . . Wrmens Rights, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 4, 2006. http //articles.philly.com. 

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