From Jay Pasachoff, Williams College
You quote Nobel laureate Harry Kroto (4 December 2004, p 9) as saying “A university without a chemistry department should be stripped of the title and redesignated a liberal arts college, which is all it is.”
Presumably he was referring to the UK. In the US, liberal arts colleges have chemistry departments so, in one sense, the well-meaning quote is actually a slur on these colleges. Williams College, for example, is quite strong across the sciences.
I hope that these decisions to abolish chemistry departments are reversed.
Williamstown, Massachusetts, US
