«Scientists were not interested in figuring out what kind of device had detonated, because they already knew that,»
says analytical chemist Michael Kristo, a nuclear forensics expert at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Not exact matches
Even within,
say, chemistry, what's expected from inorganic and
analytical chemists might not be identical.
«We have difficulty finding Ph.D. level
analytical chemists,»
says LaPlante.
«A good
analytical chemist would be able to
say «yes, this is a slight variation» as opposed to a button pusher who would simply
say «it doesn't match anything in my library».»
Before joining industry, it's worth looking into further study,
says Facundo Fernández,
analytical chemist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
It costs about $ 33,000 per kilogram to launch materials into low - Earth orbit,
says Eduardo Nicolau, an
analytical chemist at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.
But,
says Michael Varney, head of the small molecule drug discovery group at Genentech, those hiring trends are about to change: «For us, over the next 3 years, we'll hire more medicinal
chemists and more process and scale - up
chemists than we will
analytical chemists.»
«The specific smell is the odour plume of volatiles emitted from skin, think sweat,»
says John Caulfield, an
analytical chemist at Rothamsted, who used gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to identify the active compounds.
«This study is a beautiful integration of
analytical chemistry, clinical medicine, and biostatistics,»
says chemist and toxicologist Mark Viant of the University of California, Davis.
Jon Martin, an environmental and
analytical chemist at the University of Alberta,
says that such studies are important because «they show that it's feasible for food contact chemicals to migrate from paper to food and to be responsible for some of the PFOA in humans.»