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Quotes Of The Year
December 24, 2012
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 90, Issue 52
A look at some of the most intriguing
statements and photos that made it onto our pages in 2012
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.”
- Bao-lang Chen, Chairman, Formosa Chemical
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.”
JANUARY 23
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Credit: BASF
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.
Credit: BASF
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.
MAY 14
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Credit: Sarah Everts/C&EN
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.
Credit: Sarah Everts/C&EN
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.
- Ronald S. Oremland, senior scientist, U.S. Geological Survey
February 20
“Where Carl Sagan once stood, a thousand blogs now bloom.”
- Paul Raeburn, 2012 recipient, James T. Grady-James H. Stack award for interpreting chemistry for the public
March 16
“Cancer cells are a bit like dodgy house builders.”
- Nial Wheate, Senior lecturer, University of Sydney, at C&EN’s Materials SCENE
April 16
“One of the best solutions for high oil prices is high oil prices.”
- David Hobbs, chief energy strategist, IHS
April 23
“Good science doesn’t happen when people are keeping their heads down. You need a raucous, rowdy discussion.”
- Francesca T. Grifo, Scientific Integrity Program Director, Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 4
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Credit: Gaël McGill/Digizyme
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.
Credit: Gaël McGill/Digizyme
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.
JULY 16
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Credit: Sarah Chambers/U.S. Air Force
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.
Credit: Sarah Chambers/U.S. Air Force
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.
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
AUGUST 13
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Credit: Lao Cai/FeatureChina/Newscom
Workers in Beijing wait for orders to destroy a massive pile containing more than 50 tons of confiscated counterfeit pharmaceuticals collected over two years.
Credit: Lao Cai/FeatureChina/Newscom
Workers in Beijing wait for orders to destroy a massive pile containing more than 50 tons of confiscated counterfeit pharmaceuticals collected over two years.
SEPTEMBER 10
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Credit: National Institutes of Health
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.
Credit: National Institutes of Health
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.
October 22
“An entrepreneur has to love, and I do mean love, what they are doing.”
- Kathryn Hach-Darrow, Cofounder, Hach Chemical Co.
November 5
“My passion for chemistry is gone.”
- “Tom,” unemployed chemist
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
Chemical & Engineering News
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