Hamilton left mark on sciences
Running late after a brief visit to his laboratory, a hurried Andy Hamilton walked into his first-floor office in Warner House at 9:30 one morning last spring. Apologizing to a visitor waiting for him, he grabbed a tie off his desk, walked over to a mirror in the back of his office and put it on.
Then he sighed. “Chemists don’t wear neckties,” Hamilton explained. “Provosts wear neckties.”
It can be said that Hamilton, who is now enjoying the first week of what he calls a “gap year” before he becomes vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford next fall, is still a scientist...
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