What we want to achieve
for young chemists, the btS is doing for the biotech area.
Not exact matches
It was the place to go
for young, ambitious
chemists; it offered salary and benefits so generous that some people called it «Uncle Dupey.»
«Fortunately, our chemistry department had just hired a
young theoretical
chemist who introduced me to computational chemistry, and I learned there was a place
for me in chemistry without having to endanger my health,» he says.
However, I was nominated
for the tour by the head of the local GDCh group, Prof. Dr. Armin Geyer, because I am an active member of the local JungChemikerForum (
Young Chemists» Forum).
Although open only to
chemists (albeit interpreted in the widest possible sense) from London and the Home Counties, SET
for BRITAIN organises many similar events aimed at giving
young researchers of all stripes the opportunity to get the attention of policy - makers.
Being a
chemist was not, I was told by my teachers, parents, and friends, a job
for a
young woman.
The
young chemist did not know why the resulting color was so vivid; the ability of molecules to absorb photons at specific wavelengths based on the structure of their shared electron bonds would not be worked out
for another fifty years.
And together with the University of Bath it runs an annual 1 - week course in Industrial Catalytic Processes aimed at
young chemists and chemical engineers beginning their careers in industry and academia, or studying
for a PhD.
So, if you are a
chemist and like simulations — why not try using your knowledge and working in a
young start - up, developing tools which will be used
for «intelligent» discovery of new pharmaceutical compounds?
Finally, there is also hope
for those of you who are not
young chemists but rather life scientists.
She would advise
young chemists who think of going into materials science to consider carefully the research group to which they apply
for their Ph.D. «You should definitely not choose a theoretical research topic,» she says, to show that experience in applicative chemistry research gives you a head start in materials science, «and it helps if your professor is known in the field.»
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chemist Jaehoon Lim works on an apparatus that synthesizes quantum dots along with Los Alamos researcher
Young - Shin Park (also with the University of New Mexico Center
for High - Technology Materials).
Events
for the
younger set included a tour of «the fourth dimension» — a room full of hypercubes and other higher dimensional objects that gave me a touch of vertigo; a chamber of robots that you could teach to play football; a demonstration of forensic science involving (real) guns and a (fake) cadaver in a staged crime scene; a live cooking show in which physicists,
chemists, and anthropologists explained the science and origins of food; and a walking tour through the natural history of excrement featuring — you guessed it — a dizzying array of animal feces.
The Great Recession year when Ashok — and a number of other
young foreign - born Ph.D. researchers — left the United States was brutal
for chemists, as we noted at the time.
As such, this experience was amongst the most formative of my
young life as a
chemist, igniting a passion
for academic research and scientific problem solving on the highest level that will never be quenched.
Professor David Cole - Hamilton, President of the European Association
for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS), gave examples of how EuCheMS brings together chemistry related organizations,
for example, with the exchange program
Young Chemists Crossing Borders together with the ACS's
Younger Chemists Committee YCC.
Among the participating laureates are also three newly minted Nobel Laureates: the two biologists Michael Rosbash and Michael
Young, who were honoured
for their research on the inner clock, have confirmed their participation as well as the German - American
chemist Joachim Frank.