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Hal Harris

University of Missouri - St. Louis
ChemEd X Subscriber, Author
ChemEd X Member since: April 2012

Emeritus Professor of physical chemistry; member of ACS, APS, AAPT, Sigma Xi

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cover of Soonish with text over it: Book PICK
// Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Hal Harris
“Soonish” is a book about the near future, or “near-ish”, anyway. Unlike predictions of what will happen many decades from now, which are inevitably far off the mark, “Soonish” is an attempt to describe technological developments that, while they may not necessarily come to fruition before we all die of a pandemic, at least there have already been
eric scerri periodic table book
// Friday, August 30, 2019 Hal Harris
There could not be a better time for an updated, revised edition of Eric Scerri’s “The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction”, because 2019 has been designated the
// Thursday, May 25, 2017 Hal Harris
Lots of educational research shows that the most effective learning occurs when the teacher and learner are both engaged, and communication occurs in both directions. Unfortunately, the most widely-used educational practice involves a monologue, wherein a single speaker provides information to an audience of passive listeners.
The Girls of Atomic City (cover)
// Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Hal Harris
While we were driving through Tennessee recently, we visited the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, the de facto museum of the ambitious WWII project that separated the uranium and plutonium isotopes used in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I recommend that other scientists and science educators make the effort to visi