YEAR IN
REVIEW
Quotes & Photos
JANUARY 20
“In all honesty, I decided to be a chemist right after I found out I couldn’t be a cowboy.” OCTOBER 27
Bryan G. Fry, of Australia’s University of Queensland, collects venom from an inland Taipan snake.
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COURTESY OF BRYAN FRY
MELISSA A. HINES, DIRECTOR, CORNELL UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH
JUNE 23
Dendrimersomes, which have diameters of about 100 nm or more, have concentric membranes, as shown in this cutaway image.
“We learn the most from those that we have the least in common with.” JOSEPH M. DESIMONE, CHANCELLOR’S EMINENT PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
JUNE 9
“Now we see how ditching the chemistry can really bite you in the ass.” KIM JANDA, PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE CALIFORNIA
JULY 21
In a teeny tiny display of patriotism, researchers have made the world’s smallest Swiss national flag (cross is 5.6 nm wide) out of bromide ions (orange) on a sodium chloride surface (blue).
MARC HALL/NC STATE
MARCH 3
JUNE 2
Each vial in NC State’s dye collection, a donation from Eastman Chemical, is labeled by hand. The oldest in the collection date to the 1940s.
SEPTEMBER 8
“Remember to make time to think quietly and alone about science. It seems obvious, yet it’s so easy to forget.”
NAT. COMMUN.
MATTHEW SHELDON, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
AUGUST 11
“We have dispatched your communication to the printers but I cannot help feeling that you have been at the hashish again.” MARSHALL D. GATES, ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, IN A 1952 COMMUNICATION TO ROBERT BURNS WOODWARD REGARDING THE PROPOSAL OF FERROCENE’S THEN-CONTROVERSIAL SANDWICH STRUCTURE
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APRIL 14
MARCH 17
GEORGE KORIR
To get the immune system to take on invaders, six immunoglobulin G antibodies assemble into a hexagon.
Prototypes like the winner of the Science, Play & Research Kit (SPARK) competition, which houses its chemicals within a microfluidic chip, might be the chemistry sets of the future.
FEBRUARY 10
“A man trying to lead and be assertive is a leader, while a woman trying to lead and be assertive is seen as bossy or, frankly, a bitch.” THERESA VAIL, CHEMISTRY UNDERGRAD AND MISS KANSAS
NOVEMBER 17 TESLA
“The nano is invisible, and images of it should be treated with care.”
JULY 14
“It’s remarkable how many so-called breakthroughs you read about turn out to be nonsense.”
JAMES K. GIMZEWSKI, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
ELON MUSK, CEO, TESLA
JUNE 23
Miniscientists: Lego toys crack glass ceiling. OCTOBER 6
MEAGAN ELINSKI/TEX AS A&M
ELLEN KOOIJMAN
James D. Batteas of Texas A&M University sports a packable poster.
FEBRUARY 17
“Those who know nothing but chemistry don’t know that very well either.” GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, EPIGRAPH CONTRIBUTOR, “CHEMICAL POEMS: ONE ON EACH ELEMENT”
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