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What would you do with 10 PhD Chemists?
« on: January 16, 2014, 11:22:51 AM »
Just wondered what great or small ideas people have for what to do with a PhD? What questions or ideas (that are feasible!!) would people research into?

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Re: What would you do with 10 PhD Chemists?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2014, 12:57:56 PM »
Enroll in an MBA course, become a merchant banker, lawyer, medic. That should keep you busy.
According to the Merck boss chemists are not required anymore, just biologists.
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Re: What would you do with 10 PhD Chemists?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2014, 03:09:12 PM »
Study plants in the amazon. There are so many undiscovered/unstudied herbs in rain forest that could lead to so many new types of medicine.
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Re: What would you do with 10 PhD Chemists?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2014, 09:04:10 AM »
It really does depend on the people.  At the generic pharmaceutical company I worked at, 6 or 8 PhD's were simply the laboratory managers, planning out the days work for 50 MS and BoS's just to analyze production.  So off hand, I don't think 50 PhD's are going to cure cancer or achieve economical fusion power, or the like.
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Re: What would you do with 10 PhD Chemists?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2014, 01:36:18 PM »
I'd get a van and we could all drive around solving mysteries with an anthropomorphic dog
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Re: What would you do with 10 PhD Chemists?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2014, 03:11:12 PM »
Sugar shot to space !
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Re: What would you do with 10 PhD Chemists?
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2014, 05:31:38 AM »
Quote from: Northern on January 16, 2014, 11:22:51 AM
Just wondered what great or small ideas people have for what to do with a PhD?

Pyramid scheme: Christen them "Professors". Wait for 5 years. Hatch 50 new PhD's. Rinse. Repeat.
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Re: What would you do with 10 PhD Chemists?
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2014, 09:08:14 PM »
Quote from: curiouscat on February 01, 2014, 05:31:38 AM
Quote from: Northern on January 16, 2014, 11:22:51 AM
Just wondered what great or small ideas people have for what to do with a PhD?

Pyramid scheme: Christen them "Professors". Wait for 5 years. Hatch 50 new PhD's. Rinse. Repeat.

OMG. That is the epitome of graduate school education!
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