Great thread, but it misses, as is usual, Goeppert Mayer’s contribution to chemistry in the theory of isotope effects. The story as I understand it was that during the Manhattan project Jacob Bigeleisen was working on a theory of isotope effects on a chalk board, and Goeppert https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1144598916517597184
The physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus, for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Excellent thread on living in a pandemic.
“ride the waves when they come, rest when they are calm and keep looking to the horizon.”
To be human in a pandemic – A thread
Over the past 48 hours I heard from numerous clients, colleagues, and friends sharing similar messages of fatigue, stress, and burnout. “You don’t need to respond Sarah, I just need to share this…” is how many of those messages started. 1/
"we r overbrimming w/ hope as America awakens to the notion that all lives cannot matter until BlackLivesMatter too. We are black academics in America... it's time for colleagues to listen &, in this instance, follow" @KafuiDzirasa
Listening
Following
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30805-9?rss=yes#.XvYK7gOjoaI.twitter
A new documentary, ‘Picture a Scientist,’ features Raychelle Burks (aka @DrRubidium), the 2020 winner of ACS's Grady-Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public.http://ow.ly/2oWD50AfCoa
A few other Franz Lab members are also on Twitter! Follow Lizzie, Abbey, and Anna.