Posted by Larry Hoover on June 7, 2006, at 15:57:25
In reply to Re: Lar messed up, posted by bassman on June 7, 2006, at 15:22:11
> Impressive. Most scientists can't read J. Phys. Chem., let alone write anything worth publishing in it.
Well, I didn't write the article. My supervisor wouldn't let me. I was naive enough to have tried, I think. This was the first one (the figures are my work entirely), but the ones with my own unique contribution came out later, after other people could verify my data. I noted an anomalous absorption band on one peak, and it turned out to be caused by a very special meta-stable intermediate (which couldn't happen, according to some principle I hadn't yet learned). I got authorship on at least a couple of papers because I discovered the effect itself. Anyway, it seems like another lifetime, and I think it is.
http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~tfridgen/pubs/one.pdf
> I thought you might like this quote:
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> "It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue".
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> --quoted in Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)That's neat. :-)
In high school, they teach you all the rules. In university, they teach you all the exceptions. Then, you learn everything is an exception. I'm not sure when that third thing happens.
Lar
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