Publicity by the ACS increased the participation
of young chemists greatly while lack of publicity by engineering societies resulted in an under - representation from engineering disciplines.
The only problem was that although there were about 30 such groups
of young chemists all over Germany, there were none in Berlin.
Jointly organised by the Frankfurt Branch
of the Young Chemists Forum (Jungechemikerforum) and the Frankfurt Employment Office, all the major German - based biotech, pharma, and chemical industries were represented.
Not exact matches
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.
A (brave)
young chemist from Würzburg was interviewed by Mr Manfred Hund from the human resources department
of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG and a personal trainer, Doris Brenner.
As a very
young chemist, the CareerDoctor spent a summer in sunny Egham looking at the effects
of provitamins on our hair.
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.
Meet Maria Vittoria Dozzi, one
of the promising
young chemists attending the 2013 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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 new molecule can travel in a straight line in any one
of three directions on a more symmetrical surface, report
chemists Ki -
Young Kwon and Ludwig Bartels
of the University
of California, Riverside, and colleagues.
The story traces back to the early 1950s, when
chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey
of the University
of Chicago in Illinois tried to recreate the building blocks
of life under conditions they thought resembled those on the
young Earth.
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.
Twelve years after his death, the legacy
of distinguished organic
chemist Dr Herchel Smith is enabling a new generation
of bright
young researchers to pursue their scientific ambitions.
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.
Medicinal
chemists often find their way into pharmaceutical companies, but Buolamwini likes the freedom
of academia, and the ability to contribute innovative ideas as well as the chance to train
young scientists.
Earth sciences - Radiometric dating: In 1905, shortly after the discovery
of radioactivity, the American
chemist Bertram Boltwood suggested that lead is G. Brent Dalrymple's classic debunking
of the
young - earth «scientific» creationism's dating methods with a short explanation
of how geologists know the age
And in a series
of profiles
of «21st Century
Chemists,» we're focusing on younger, mid-career chemists, several of whom are women, who are working on especially «cool» and significant research — like the Purdue University chemist studying the glue mussels secrete underwater, so he can synthesize a wet - setting adhesive that could be used as a surgical glue or new bone
Chemists,» we're focusing on
younger, mid-career
chemists, several of whom are women, who are working on especially «cool» and significant research — like the Purdue University chemist studying the glue mussels secrete underwater, so he can synthesize a wet - setting adhesive that could be used as a surgical glue or new bone
chemists, several
of whom are women, who are working on especially «cool» and significant research — like the Purdue University
chemist studying the glue mussels secrete underwater, so he can synthesize a wet - setting adhesive that could be used as a surgical glue or new bone cement.
As I explain in the chat, these two
young men embody the kind
of innovative spirit more typically associated with
chemists, engineers and other tinkerers.