As a boy growing up in Newton, Martin Karplus was captivated by his older brother’s chemistry set and wanted one of his own. Their parents, however, didn’t want to increase the amount of odd ...

Martin Karplus, professor of chemistry emeritus at Harvard University and professeur conventionné at the University of Strasbourg, died Dec. 28 at the age of 94. Born in Vienna in 1930, Karplus ...

The eighth president of the United States, the so-called little magician, saw political parties as the key to achieving power Ted Scheinman Senior Editor Martin Van Buren in 1860. Library of ...