“Deep Space Homer” is about as classic as The Simpsons episodes come. The Season 5 episode launches Homer into space as part of a special NASA program made to help boost ratings, and Homer fails his ...

After his lifetime of accomplishments, what do most people remember Herschbach for? A 2003 cameo in "The Simpsons," where he rewarded the mad-scientist character Professor Frink his own Nobel Prize.

The iconic cartoon has flirted with space travel, evolution and Stephen Hawking. July 26, 2007 — -- In 1986, Dudley Herschbach, now an award-winning chemistry professor at Harvard, won the Nobel ...