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JUNE 2005

Herbert Hauptman, SUNY Buffalo

I attended elementary school in the Bronx, then Townsend Harris Hill High School in Manhattan, (CCNY (B.S.), Columbia University (M.A.), University of Maryland (Ph.D.)

Outstanding Teachers: Professor Emil Post who taught “Theory of Functions of a Real Variable” (CCNY). Also outstanding were Professors Dick Wick Hall and Richard A. Good who taught “Topological Groups” at the University of Maryland.

The greatest challenge was the phase problem of x-ray crystallography. This challenge was overcome through hard work and persistence spanning many years despite universal opposition from the crystallographic community.

Winning the Nobel Prize meant acceptance of our work on the part of the crystallographic community that for many years had rejected our work as not valid. To be vindicated in this way was important and meant a lot to me.

I continue to work on the phase problem that, like any good problem, continues to provide significant challenges.

Stem cell research is of the greatest importance and should receive major unconditional support. I find it incredible, and incredibly short sighted, that there is any resistance to this research.

What can one say about Einstein’s work but that it demonstrates once again that the importance of fundamental scientific research cannot be exaggerated and should receive major public support and encouragement because of the benefits to society which it returns. #

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