WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Anecdotes about the late Herbert C. Brown are circulating like electrons this week as dozens of the Nobel laureate’s former students and others working in his field of chemistry gather at Purdue University.

Stories about Brown’s work with boron compounds and his personal philosophy and generosity are sandwiched between academic talks during the H.C. Brown Centennial Celebration, which continues through Saturday. The West Lafayette chemist, who died in 2004, would have turned 100 this year.

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