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MIT. PhD. M-o-n-e-y. He AIN’T a Chem E!

October 19, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

George Hatsopoulous was never a ChemE- but he did hail from MIT. Where he earned his degrees in mechanical engineering. And, he did start a most interesting company- as a spin-off from MIT- the Thermo Electron Corporation.

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Proof or Consequences

October 6, 2011 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 12 Comments

The other day one of my friends, Tor Constantine wrote a wonderful piece (Believing in God is Tough – Not Believing is Tougher…) about belief in a Supreme Being (SB). (This is not my term- I am just trying to be non-partisan, since this is not a religion piece- whether you know this SB as Hashem, G0d, Allah, whatever—the name is immaterial.) In that piece, he wrote “Anyone who has ever wrestled with this issue ultimately realizes that you cannot prove nor disprove the existence of G0d.”

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