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The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« on: June 16, 2006, 01:13:50 PM »
Although the News of the day is the Sames retraction(s):http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/i25/8425papers.html
Blogs:http://www.thechemblog.com/?p=52, http://occams.blogspot.com/2006/06/four-more-retractions.html

I thought I would go off topic and show a picture of my office.

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Please notice the triple multi-headed machine I use to work and play, the bean bag in the corner and the miscellaneous cans of Mountain Dew that I tried to move off to one side.

And just so you don't think that life as a Nuclear Chemist sucks cubicle walls. Here is a picture of the SF bay from our lunch tables at the 88 inch cyclotron. Eat that any other university/work-place on the planet.

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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2006, 03:22:33 PM »
MMMMM Mountain Dew. I love Mountain Dew. I used to drink 12 packs of it a day. Then I decided that it'll probably take years off my life if I drink 12 packs of it a day. Now I limit myself to 1 or 2 a day.  :(

Mountain Dew MDX and Amped are both pretty good also. Caffeine does nothing to me.
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2006, 09:41:17 PM »
:o     :o     :o

OMG! Check out the number of reference books on Mitch's desk: Fifty, 50!!!

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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2006, 09:47:00 PM »
Theres even more on the left hand side and the right hand side of those shelves. Also, you can't see but there is two 5-foot tall book cases along the right hand side of the cube. Also, not in view is my Journal of Chemical Education collection. :)
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2006, 01:26:01 PM »
Right above that middle monitor....there's a blank space on the wall.

Looks like a good place for a Nobel Prize medal!

Or pornography.
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2006, 06:47:11 PM »
Quote from: lemonoman on June 17, 2006, 01:26:01 PM
Looks like a good place for a Nobel Prize medal!

Or pornography.

Porn is a good choice for now.. :P
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2006, 05:45:06 PM »
What kind of chemist has an office? I thought all chemists worked in labs.

One of the reasons I want to study chemisty is to get out of the rat race, to get out of working in a small cubicle, and to do something interesting.

How much of your work is done in a cubicle?
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2006, 06:40:05 PM »
Most Chemists are not nuclear chemists, I wouldn't worry about it.
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2006, 08:24:24 PM »
Quote from: Baseball_Fan on June 18, 2006, 05:45:06 PM
What kind of chemist has an office? I thought all chemists worked in labs.

One of the reasons I want to study chemisty is to get out of the rat race, to get out of working in a small cubicle, and to do something interesting.

How much of your work is done in a cubicle?

Here at the University of Waterloo, a lot of chemists (even undergraduates, if they're working in a lab) get a bit of desk space to use.  After all, you need a place with a computer to write articles/papers, or do research, and stuff.  Aside from professors, none of the desk spaces are as cubicle-like as Mitch's appears to be...but don't be fooled, a good portion of chemistry is computer based!

  • Inorganic Chemists can use computer software to predict the structures of crystals, before they try to synthesize them (i.e. band gap for superconductivity, etc)
  • Analytical Chemists may use their computer extensively for data collection and analysis - though nowadays, this kind of thing is usually done on a dedicated system attached to the instrument
  • Some Physical Chemists, Organic chemists and Biochemists use computers (and SUPERcomputers) to do calculations on molecules - energy optimizations, visualizations, and stuff (i.e. Guassian or Sybil)

And don'e get me wrong, it's not like chemistry is mostly a desk job - we're in the lab most of the time lol...but office space can be very useful, if your institution/corporation has the space to do it :D

And P.S. Mitch:  The ohmeter on the left side of your desk is pretty random :P
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2006, 08:46:03 PM »
Quote from: lemonoman on June 18, 2006, 08:24:24 PM
And P.S. Mitch:  The ohmeter on the left side of your desk is pretty random :P

Yeah, what is it hooked up to?  Looks kind of like a calculator but I figure it's something else.

I was curious to see what books you had handy, but I could only identify a couple of them.
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2006, 05:43:20 AM »
Mitch, how about publish photos from the labs that you work? I guess many people - like me  ;D , would be curious for the place that a Nuclear chemist works.  ;) Will you think about it?
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2006, 12:24:37 PM »
lovely office btw
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2006, 01:22:36 AM »
I'm jumping in a little late here, but this is what my office at Berkeley looks like, in the case that anyone wants to see the workspace of an organic chemist.  Incidently, it's what Mitch's old office used to look like (but a bit newer) since he used to be part of our group.
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2006, 01:26:42 AM »
And here's my office at the other national lab. :)
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Re: The Office of a Nuclear Chemist.
« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2006, 03:02:59 AM »
I see Mitch has his Cal III and Quantum Mechanics books  ;D

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