QUOT ES OF THE YEA R
QUOTES OF THE YEAR A look at some of the most INTRIGUING STATEMENTS and photos that made it onto our pages in 2012 L IN DA WAN G/C& EN
OCTOBER 22
“An entrepreneur has to love, and I do mean love, what they are doing.” KATHRYN HACH-DARROW, COFOUNDER, HACH CHEMICAL CO.
JUNE 4 FEBRUARY 20
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“Where Carl Sagan once stood, a thousand blogs now bloom.”
An artist’s depiction of the cancer-fighting nanoparticle BIND-014. The particle is built from a copolymer (gray) with targeting ligands on its surface (blue) and the chemotherapeutic agent docetaxel (red) encapsulated at its core.
Daniel Schildhammer dons an Aouda.X spacesuit prototype for a walk through a cave in the Austrian Alps that serves as a proxy for caves on Mars. NOVEMBER 5
“My passion for chemistry is gone.” “TOM,” UNEMPLOYED CHEMIST
APRIL 23
“Good science doesn’t happen when people are keeping their heads down. You need a raucous, rowdy discussion.” AUGUST 13
Workers in Beijing wait for orders to destroy a massive pile containing more than 50 tons of confiscated counterfeit pharmaceuticals collected over two years.
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FRANCESCA T. GRIFO, SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY PROGRAM DIRECTOR, UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS
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MAY 14
LAO CAI /FE ATURECHINA/NEWSCOM
PAUL RAEBURN, 2012 RECIPIENT, JAMES T. GRADY-JAMES H. STACK AWARD FOR INTERPRETING CHEMISTRY FOR THE PUBLIC
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DECEMBER 10
“We’re doing science at the speed of science, in a world that runs at the pace of Instagrams.” JOHN P. GROTZINGER, PROJECT SCIENTIST, CURIOSITY MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY
MARCH 16 SARAH CHAMBERS/U.S. AIR FO RCE
“Cancer cells are a bit like dodgy house builders.”
NIAL WHEATE, SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AT C&EN’S MATERIALS SCENE
JANUARY 2
“If you’re the boss, and you like to play golf, you will find that the people below you play golf too. And if you’re concerned about safety, they’ll be concerned about safety.”
SEPTEMBER 10 APRIL 16
“One of the best solutions for high oil prices is high oil prices.”
JULY 16
DAVID HOBBS, CHIEF ENERGY STRATEGIST, IHS
U.S. team member and silver medalist Sidharth Chand of Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills, Mich., prepares for the International Chemistry Olympiad, where high school students compete in exams and laboratory work to test their knowledge in chemistry theory and practice.
Studies by the Encode consortium found that “junk” DNA holds regulatory functions in its noncoding regions. Pictured is an artist’s rendering of proteins interacting with genomic DNA unwinding from a chromosome.
JANUARY 30
“If you don’t think, and you don’t try, and you don’t test, then everyone just keeps doing the same incremental stuff.” BASF
RONALD S. OREMLAND, SENIOR SCIENTIST, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
JANUARY 23
An electron micrograph of a 10-μm-wide cluster of a hybrid material containing CaCO3 and the hydrophobic steroid danazol. The mixture allows for better solubility of the drug.
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OCTOBER 16
“Back to lab. We have to win the second one!” SEUNGKIRL AHN AND ARUN SHUKLA, ASSISTANT PROFESSORS IN THE LAB OF 2012 CHEMISTRY NOBEL LAUREATE ROBERT J. LEFKOWITZ, AT CENTRAL SCIENCE BLOG TERRA SIGILLATA
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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
BAO-LANG CHEN, CHAIRMAN, FORMOSA CHEMICAL
