scientist for midterm exam 2 Flashcards
awarded 1962 Nobel prize, discovery of the structure of hemoglobin, started the new age of 3D characterization of large biomolecules, founded molecular bio unit of the Medical Research Council (MCR) in the UK, wrote the book, “I wish I’d made you angry earlier”, said “Discovery is like falling in love… more wonderful than anyone imagined” and “Science is a part of culture… I’m surprised how little people know about anything, I’m puzzled by it”, not interested in job at first
Max Perutz
never won a Nobel prize he was nominated more than 41 times for at least 3 different accomplishments, formalized a description of covalent bonds, created the most general definition of acids and bases, key researcher in at east 5 major areas of chemistry, believed to have committed suicide after lunch that got heated, homeschooled until 14, both his sons are chemists. “a detective with his murder mystery” “It must be admitted that science has its castes” “But if a chemist has lost his soul…”
Gilbert N. Lewis
pioneered “directed evolution” as a mean to create biological systems, studied enzymes, awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2013, member of all 3 national academies, first women to win the millennium technology prize, breast cancer survivor, lived in apartment in high school and worked as a cocktail waitress in a jazz bar and drove a cab for money, “Most innovations are not obvious… if you have a good idea, follow it” “Ive been called pushy and aggressive and all other negative things that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn’t bother me”
Frances Arnold
studied interactions between atomic particles, foundation to understanding the energetics of chemical bonding, took his wife last name, created the way to describe the balancing of forces that occurs as electron orbitals overlap, “dress appropriately, but in chemical laboratory, gowns need not be worn”
Sir John Lennard Jones
One of the worlds foremost contributors to our current understanding of chemical processes that occur at water surfaces, won the Priestly Medal in 2018, won National Medal of Science, only the fourth women to win a Priestly Medal, President Obama’s science envoy, founder of committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists, President of the American Association for Advancement of Science, parents dreamed of all 4 daughters would be college graduates, “as my career advanced, I learned research alone is not enough” “you don’t need the fanciest experiments to do important science” “I was good at math, I was told I would be a good secretary”
Geraldine Richmond
won 1998 Nobel prize in chemistry for developing computational quantum mechanical methods, “through math, we can predict large amounts of chemistry”, developed tools to calculate bonding, went to University of Cambridge during WWII, since war ended he stopped studying math and then did chemistry for PhD, “from an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than run a small business, education is a way of moving forward” “I benefit from the love and support of my wife and children”
John Pople
Who was John Pople under the supervision of, why was it strange?
John Lennard-Jones, and because People had no chemistry background
awarded Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954 and a peace prize in 1962, only person to have two unshared Nobel prizes. known for defining electronegativity, orbital hybridization, and importance of alpha helical and beta sheet structure to proteins. in short, he was active in defining the basic ideas of quantum mechanics and bonding. didn’t graduate high school, met his wife as a TA in chem for home economics, noted peace activist, on Einstein’s Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientist about nuclear weapons, passport. “Science cannot be stopped… “ “man will gain knowledge no matter the consequence” “the only sane policy of the world is abolishing war” “If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong and you have to learn which ones to throw away”
Linus Pauling
who recently won a Nobel prize this week
Frances Arnold
