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Related: About this forumPeriodic Table As Seen By Organic Chemists.
I saw this on Linkedin, posted by a very senior guy at Lilly.
I will confess to having been an organic chemist, although at this point in my career, near the end, I'm more an analytical chemist.
We're really not entirely this shallow when it comes to the chemistry of the elements - samarium does some cool organic chemistry, as does, for that matter, cerium (Who cares?) - but I found it hilarious overall.
I recall a lecture by Barry Trost, a very famous organic chemist, where he had a periodic table, "The Periodic Table According to Trost," which featured palladium in much the same way as carbon is depicted here. (Catalysts I use to do real chemistry.)
Loved "fake elements made up by commies" since the second heaviest of them is named for Tennessee. I never thought of Tennessee as a communist country. (106 is named for the great American Chemist, Glenn Seaborg.)
TexasTowelie
(112,089 posts)until I took Advanced Inorganic Chemistry.
Old Crank
(3,564 posts)During my Stanford days trying to get his labs into compliance so we wouldn't be fined and in the newspaper as hazardous chemical risks. Not always pleasant interactions.
NNadir
(33,512 posts)One of them got his Ph.D. with him, the other was a post-doc.
The latter hated Corey; and claimed he couldn't hold a candle to his Ph.D. advisor, Jack Baldwin. I think it was personal. The guy who got his Ph.D with Corey, a friend of mine - a very laid back kind of guy with a generous spirit and a sense of humor - just described him as "difficultly eccentric."
I guess you're entitled to a certain amount of arrogance when you've "made it."
Old Crank
(3,564 posts)Just because you 'made it' doesn't give you license to grind people up. IMHO
NNadir
(33,512 posts)My wife is observing this.
Recently, as an outgrowth of the Covid crisis, the professor for whom she works, an expert of evolution - including that of viruses - has found himself suddenly being interviewed by major media and invited to be "Keynote speaker" in various settings and racking up grants, is changing, and it seems not to be entirely under his control.
One can be decent, gracious, and famous at the same time of course. I once spent an hour in a room with Seaborg. I can't say I knew Seaborg - I didn't - but I observed his interactions with people. He struck me as a very decent and gracious man.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Hydrogen (disparaged as "Carbon's little buddy" does the heavy lifting.
NNadir
(33,512 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)PCIntern
(25,518 posts)Took 4 semesters in college. Laughed my butt off here with this.