Henry Bent is and has been one of our most creative chemical educators.In 1965 he published The Second Law(1),a highly innovative introduction to classical and statistical thermodynamics.He pioneered die tangent-sphere model for molecular structure,chaired the ad hoc ACS committee that reviewed the numbering of columns in the periodic table,and did hundreds of demonstrations for schools and other groups from his mobile laboratory.Throughout his career,Henry has not been hesitant to express his sometimes iconoclastic opinions about chemistry and its teaching and to defend them vigorously.
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