tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post3117222371744088097..comments2024-03-29T09:05:29.819-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: The meandering paths of a Nobel-prize winning chemistChemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-4076678780362031312021-06-22T08:32:35.613-04:002021-06-22T08:32:35.613-04:00The Swiss military has a somewhat unusual and pecu...The Swiss military has a somewhat unusual and peculiar system: It is a milita where an inital recruit training of 4-5 months (4 months back in Ernst's days), followed by annual training camps of 3 weeks. So not too much time wasted there Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-51035858022071250842021-06-21T17:24:32.246-04:002021-06-21T17:24:32.246-04:00actually Paul Lauterbur who invented MRI, for whic...actually Paul Lauterbur who invented MRI, for which he got Nobel, was inspired by his 2-year stint in the military. He was bored stiff as a chemist working on poison gases in Edgewood, MD, but their military research center was rich and let him buy an early NMR. Which he used for analysis of samples from lab animals poisoned by warfare agents. And he was dreaming about putting whole mice, even live, into the magnet. And all his colleagues called him crazy...milkshakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08188961610554710616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-14360107194930015982021-06-21T13:57:19.253-04:002021-06-21T13:57:19.253-04:00Dick Schrock worked in industry for a while before...Dick Schrock worked in industry for a while before becoming a professor. <br /><br />On the materials side of things, it's very common for profs to have spent time in industry. Ben Feringa, Craig Hawker, Joanna Aizenberg, and a number of others, were in industrial research centres before coming (back) to academia.Jordannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-72011669753968076252021-06-21T12:10:18.406-04:002021-06-21T12:10:18.406-04:00Djerassi was at Ciba and Syntex before he joined t...Djerassi was at Ciba and Syntex before he joined the faculty at Stanford.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-57470399200427612572021-06-21T11:16:14.185-04:002021-06-21T11:16:14.185-04:00Wasn't uncommon back then for scientists to go...Wasn't uncommon back then for scientists to go from industry -> academia. Prof. Olah was initially at Dow Chemicals in Canada before joining the Western Reserve University (which soon became Case Western Reserve University).Adamantanenoreply@blogger.com