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...time Collins graduated from high school, at 16, he was determined to become a chemist. Biology, curiously, did not interest him at all. "Somehow," he muses, "I had the notion that life was chaotic and that whatever principles governed it were unpredictable." This prejudice stayed with him through his undergraduate years at the University of Virginia, where he excelled in the hard sciences and avoided biology as if it were basket weaving. But as a Yale Ph.D. candidate in physical chemistry, he took biochemistry, encountering for the first time DNA and RNA, the molecules that carry the code of life...
Frustrated by the scarcity and of the drug, scientists, including Professor of Chemistry Eric N. Jacobsen, have attempted to develop synthetic forms of taxol. Jacobsen's work centers on finding a natural product which can be modified to taxol. Recently, the chemist successfully synthesized taxol from a compound known as diterpene, obtainable in large quantities from nature...
Kanaka Pattabiraman '97, another member of the group, was pleasantly surprised with the workload she had encountered thus far. "I thought it was all going to be harder," proclaimed the aspiring research chemist. (A career goal that seems rather unstupid, as occupations...
...civil servants are competent and willing workers who are endlessly frustrated by the system. By ) making raises and promotions dependent almost entirely on seniority, the system rewards those who timidly follow the rules and gives no incentive to creativity. Managers have no way to reward outstanding work: a brilliant chemist, for example, who has reached the top of the pay scale in her classification can be given a further raise only if she is promoted to a supervisory position -- and that would take her away from her test tubes and retorts. A civil servant usually can be fired only...
...organic chemist educated in Switzerland, Eschenmoser has conducted research there for almost 40 years. He was appointed professor of organic chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1965, and elected to the Foreign Association of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A...