From this week's C&EN, interesting tidbits:
- Lisa Jarvis talks to Michael Sofia, the medicinal chemist behind Sovaldi, about his next targets.
- Interesting story by Andrea Widener about Michael Rogers, the chemist who just retired after many years of working at NIH as "director of the Division of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biological Chemistry in the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)."
- Short column worth pondering about chemistry's public perception by Bibiana Campos Seijo.
- Read this column by John Adams if you'd like to hear about how ACS develops its public policy positions.
- Alex Scott covers Angela Merkel's speech at BASF's 150th anniversary celebration, which was, um, pretty frank in spots. (I'd love to know if an American president has ever done the same?)
Just out of curiosity, there were of course companies in the UK and the US which also manufactured the poison gases which we used in the first world war. Which were they, or who owns them now?
ReplyDeleteWas also curious about who first synthesized uranium hexafluoride, and who realized that it could be used for uranium enrichment. Was it good-old-Dow-chemical who synthesized Agent Orange? Napalm? Etc.
Just pointing out, that historically speaking, the Germans are obliged to owe up to stuff which we righteously push under the table.