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Environment
Quotes & Photos Of The Year
December 23, 2013
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 91, Issue 51
A look at some of the most intriguing
statements and photos that made it onto our pages in 2013
MAY 20
Credit: Science
Digitally colored confocal microscopy image of “flowers” made by layering precipitates grown under iterative conditions.
JULY 28, 1969
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Credit: The Watch Glass
Cletus Welch, a senior research chemist for the chemical division of PPG Industries, finds that glassware in his lab makes
an unusual chess set. During a break in his research on chlorine-oxygen compounds at PPG’s Barberton, Ohio, labs, Welch set up a game using the pieces as chessmen.
Credit: The Watch Glass
Cletus Welch, a senior research chemist for the chemical division of PPG Industries, finds that glassware in his lab makes
an unusual chess set. During a break in his research on chlorine-oxygen compounds at PPG’s Barberton, Ohio, labs, Welch set up a game using the pieces as chessmen.
This year, C&EN celebrated 90 years of covering chemistry. To highlight moments in the magazine’s history from the C&EN Archives, we introduced the award-nominated Tumblr blog The Watch Glass.
June 2, 1980
“If an experiment does not hold out the possibility of causing one to revise one’s views, it is hard to see why it should be done at all.”
- Peter B. Medawar, 1960 Nobel Laureate
February 11
“I always say, ‘Find out who your friends are, and sell more to them’ ”
- Vince Shiely, Lubar & Co
March 25
“We breathe it. We live it. We are chemistry.”
- Ashley Armenta, Grade 9, Southeast Career Technical Academy, Las Vegas
JULY 22
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Credit: Kate Holt/WaterAid
Martha Bichael bathes one of her children in dangerously dirty water in Bokola, Malawi.
Credit: Kate Holt/WaterAid
Martha Bichael bathes one of her children in dangerously dirty water in Bokola, Malawi.
May 6
“Trying to get scientists to impact policymakers is like trying to herd cats.”
- John Edward Porter, Chair of the Board, Research!America
May 20
“Postdocs are starting to become a substitute for real jobs.”
- William F. Banholzer, former executive vice president and chief technology officer, Dow Chemical
May 27
“West, Texas, is just the tip of the chemical disaster iceberg.”
- Rick Hind, Greenpeace
MAY 13
Credit: Lisa Jarvis/C&EN
Case Hogan, who loves his red cowboy boots, rests after his dose in a clinical trial to treat the neurological effects of Hunter syndrome, a rare and fatal genetic disease.
June 3
“The public has been having a hard time getting its head around the idea that adding a chemical to the environment can mitigate a problem.”
- Ronald Tjeerdema, Professor of Aquatic Toxicology, University of California, Davis
July 29
“Scientists should provide solutions to social problems and dreams for people.”
- Eiichi Nakamura, University of Tokyo
August 26
“Just wrapping people up in a lab coat and gloves doesn’t automatically make them safe.”
- Debbie Decker, Chemistry Department Safety Manager, University of California, Davis
OCTOBER 7
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Credit: Yasunori Koide/Wikimedia Commons
Research shows that a peptide in the Chinese red-headed centipede’s venom could be a candidate for treating chronic pain.
Credit: Yasunori Koide/Wikimedia Commons
Research shows that a peptide in the Chinese red-headed centipede’s venom could be a candidate for treating chronic pain.
September 9
SEPTEMBER 9
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Credit: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Credit: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
“Joy—maybe you find it only in science, when nature reveals its great secrets.”
- Max Perutz, 1962 Nobel laureate, pictured at right
September 30
“I would not recommend using waste salmon fat to make biodiesel, because it smells just as bad as you can imagine.”
- Stuart R. Coles, University of Warwick
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