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PubMed2004

"He sees the development of children's concepts upon a background of sociology": Jean Piaget's honorary degree at Harvard University in 1936.

In the recent memory, Jean Piaget has been known as a cognitive developmental psychologist. But in 1936 when Harvard gave him his first honorary degree, he was recognized mainly as a sociologist. Why did Harvard honor him in 1936? Who knew his work well enough to nominate him? This article will address these questions by exploring archival documents from different sources. Evidence draws our attention to a broad social and intellectual endeavor in philanthropy, other social sciences, and especially industrial research that brought Piaget across the water. This article also attempts to interpret the circumstances of the nomination process inside and outside of Harvard University by using a theory of institutional design. It suggests that embodied in Harvard's honor of Piaget in 1936 was an idealistic act in social designing for a future society.

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PubMed1999

A world from brave to new: Talcott Parsons and the war effort at Harvard University.

This article argues that for Parsons and some of his colleagues at Harvard, the Second World War and the post-war period provided a context in which their work contributed to the transformation from totalitarianism to democracy in Central Europe (especially Germany) and Japan. The various agendas of Parsons' work are shown, supplemented by that of three of his colleagues with whom he collaborated (Gordon W. Allport, Carl J. Friedrich, Clyde Kluckhohn). The immediate effect of this work, for Parsons, however, meant frustration rather than fame, and his eventual reputation, I maintain, came unexpectedly with the third of his three attempts in the immediate post-war period to sum up what he believed were crucial insights that the Second World War had yielded concerning the ways in which sociology could contribute to the analytical understanding of democracy. The significance of this work is that it was both political and scientific. Because of the world situation of the 1940s, when the Holocaust in Germany was the nadir of civilization, Parsons believed that social science could contribute to the cause of making the world safe for future democracy. In the 1940s, this future depended on brave citizens, or such might have been Parsons' worldview. Targets envisaged for the 1950s, then, were community and citizenship in the newly democratic societies such as (West) Germany, the land that defeated Nazism.

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PubMed2001

Comment on the Communication "The Key to Solving the Protein-Folding Problem Lies in an Accurate Description of the Denatured State" by van Gunsteren et al. We thank Eugene Shakhnovich (Harvard University) for pointing out the references on lattice polymer simulations and very helpful discussions. We also thank Wilfred van Gunsteren for comments on the manuscript. A.R.D. is a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Hitchings-Elion Postdoctoral Fellow. The work done at Harvard was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health.

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PubMed2001

Asymmetric Catalysis in Diversity-Oriented Organic Synthesis: Enantioselective Synthesis of 4320 Encoded and Spatially Segregated Dihydropyrancarboxamides We thank the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM-52067) for support of this research, and Dr. John Tallarico and Max Narovlyansky at the ICCB for generously providing resin for the library synthesis. We thank Dr. Helen Blackwell and Lucy Pérez for expert help with library encoding. We are grateful to Prof. Eric Jacobsen and Prof. Scott Denmark for the use of their chiral stationary phase high pressure liquid chromatograph and supercritical fluid chromatograph, respectively. The Harvard ICCB is supported by Merck & Co., Merck KGaA, the Keck Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute. R.A.S. is a Research Associate and S.L.S. is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University.

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PubMed2001

Decoding Products of Diversity Pathways from Stock Solutions Derived from Single Polymeric Macrobeads H.E.B. and L.P. contributed equally to this work. We thank the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM-52067) for the support of this research. We are especially grateful to Dr. Andrew Tyler for expert mass spectroscopy support. The Harvard ICCB is supported by Merck & Co., Merck KGaA, the Keck Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute. H.E.B. is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (sponsored by Merck & Co.). L.P. is a Research Fellow, and S.L.S. is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University.

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PubMed2002

Teaching target-oriented and diversity-oriented organic synthesis at Harvard University.

Diversity-oriented synthesis presents many formidable challenges to the practitioners of synthetic organic chemistry. Those challenges include the effective teaching of this new and evolving discipline to ensure that students are well positioned to begin exploring its full potential. Fortunately, the teaching of synthetic organic chemistry has a rich history in the context of target-oriented synthesis, and this precedent can serve as a strong foundation for meeting the challenges of teaching diversity-oriented synthesis.

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