"Atthis point, the originofMercury'slargecoreisstillamystery," saidLarry Nittler, a cosmochemist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington who led the X-rayspectrometerstudy.
Instead of whining about the end of oil like Larry Hagman, Ray Hunt is building solutions in natural gas and power transmission, and perhaps most importantly, preparing son Hunter Hunt to some day take over the empire.
"Larry is the go-to guy that pulled all this together, " said Ed Ray, the Oregon State University president and head of the committee that approved Scott's compensation package.