Comments on: Nobel Prize time!

By: bad wolf

bad wolf — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:45:14 +0000

As of today i can testify she’s an excellent speaker: rapid and enthusiastic, with satisfactory thanks to predecessors and students.

And Ben Cravatt is a big wuss.

By: stork naked

stork naked — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:34:44 +0000

IF synthetic chemistry wins this year it will be either:

evans/stork/(seebach) “…for contributions to acyclic stereocontrol…”

trost/heck/suzuki “…for their expansion of palladium chemistry…”

very premature to consider white as a nobelist, especially when the erythro synthesis had one noteworthy step that while nice, is not earth shattering

By: Unumbium specialist

Unumbium specialist — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:15:07 +0000

Well… “transition metal cross coupling: Suzuki/Heck/Sonogashira” I think Negishi deserves it as much as those three guys. At least.

By: MCC

MCC — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:54:04 +0000

CJ:

You should check out her group’s website. There are some interesting pics on there as I recall.

By: Phosgene

Phosgene — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:27:09 +0000

Are you counting the Governator and Chuck Norris in this count, as exemplified in that picture??

By: piratechem

piratechem — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:35:55 +0000

how about Brus or others for the colloidal synthesis techniques used to make nanoparticles?

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:52:12 +0000

She only has 15 pieces of flair….most professors have 37.

By: Kyle Finchsigmate

Kyle Finchsigmate — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:42:28 +0000

Jesus fuck, I never meant that she deserves a Nobel prize like Scorse deserves more fucking Oscars than Sylvester Stalone, I meant that she’s the kind of ballsy fucking scientist that tend to get them and I wouldn’t be surprised if one day she did.

Some people need to take their Christina White hatred to a psychiatrist.

By: stir_bar

stir_bar — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:01:20 +0000

I can’t stand flair…

By: Phosgene

Phosgene — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:00:55 +0000

I think there are people who have better examples of C-H activation and functionalization. I don’t think she is the best.