Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Peter G. Schultz, a University of California, Berkeley, biological chemist also rejected a tenure offer this spring...
...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...
Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 was a respected president, but not extremely visible at Harvard. A chemist, he spent much of his time advising President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 on scientific issues. Whiteside, who became acquainted with Conant as a graduate student, said he was "indescribably remote" during Whiteside's undergraduate years...