George Flynn

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I am often amazed by the kinds of misinformation that people believe about Hugo voting figures. Just an example: One widely distributed report on this year’s nominations said, “There were 122 ballots with best fanzine nominations (29%, a high number).” The 122 was in fact the number of fanzines nominated, not the number of people nominating; but where did the idea come from that 29% would be “a high number”?

Richard Bersohn, a chemical physicist best known for his elegant, powerfully simple studies of molecular photodissociation and chemical kinetics, died of cancer on 18 November 2003 in New York City. He was the Higgins Professor of Natural Science at Columbia University. Born 13 May 1925 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, Richard earned his BS in chemistry from MIT at age 19.