From "David MacMillan and Benjamin List win Nobel prize for chemistry" (London Times).
I like that he went outside to answer the phone. Nobel-quality people don't just answer the phone inside the café.
October 6, 2021
"When, this morning, Benjamin List received a call from a Swedish number, he was sitting with his wife in a café."
"'We were about to have breakfast,' the Max Planck Institute professor said. 'We looked at each other in disbelief, jokingly.' Was this, they laughed, the call? 'I went outside. And it was the call.'"
From "David MacMillan and Benjamin List win Nobel prize for chemistry" (London Times).
From "David MacMillan and Benjamin List win Nobel prize for chemistry" (London Times).
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Blocked story for me...but it's fascinating to know that the guy drinking the coffee probably knows exactly what his coffee is made of, chemically speaking.
I have a friend who can build and run oil refineries. He can take a barrel of oil and turn it into gasoline.
That sort of complex, detailed knowledge amazes me...
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research--I guess if the Green New Deal goes through, then it is "Time's Up" or some other form of cancellation.
he should have put it on speaker/PA system
Funny! As a kid, I could look at the first 3 digits of the 7 digit phone number, and I knew where that telephone exchange existed geographically in town.
Later in life, area codes (10 digit phone numbers) were associated with their geographic location.
Now, we have to know the country codes!?!?!?
Trivia question......I had to look this up, but what is the telephone country code for Canada?
.....and I certainly want to applaud him for taking the telephone conversation outside!! A Scholar, and a Gentleman.
When I was dating after my divorce, I made a flourish of turning off my phone then asking the date to do likewise. If she declined, I did not ask for a second date. None of them were waiting for a call from Sweden.
"Nobel-quality people"? That currency was debased long ago.
For fuck's sake- organocatalysts having nothing to do with being "green" or eco friendly. If this is why these two won the prize, it is a joke.
Agree on call protocol. Classy. His somewhat low-key reaction is also one we see from scientists. The Nobel prize doesn’t solve his problems with other scientific challenges that he is currently addressing. So, in a sense, life goes on with the glow of having been recognized for a significant contribution to science.
In more unsurprising news, now admitted leftist (formerly grifter FakeCon) David French goes all in on weaponizing the DOJ/FBI against parents who disapprove of CRT being shoved down their kids throats in school along with forced masking which has no actual science behind it.
Unsurprising because David French, along with fellow FakeCon grifters Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes, was one of the Controlled Opposition types hired and paid by Facebook to provide justification/"fact"-checking "from the right" for deplatforming actual pro-life and other conservative groups.....which David and Jonah and Steve were happy to do....by lying.
Because that's how you "conserve Conservatism", by being the fake FakeCon "fact"-checkers for lying lefties who want to shut down conservative speech.
"Nobel-quality people don't just answer the phone inside the café. "
I agree with you 99.999999999999% But I wouldn't mind being in the café when a person got the Nobel Prize call, unless it was for literature, then they should take it outside like everybody else. How is it that a man, married to a woman, won the prize? It seemed to have switched to a prize for being a member of a politically powerful group, recently.
Trivia question......I had to look this up, but what is the telephone country code for Canada?
+1, same as the USA
I see that the Physics prize went to global warming modelers, the same ones who have gotten very little actually right. The same ones whose models are a hodge-podge of physics and chemistry with an unhealthy admixture of assumptions.
They may as well start giving the IgNobel prizes to recognize actual achievements, because the Nobel Prize committee has stolen their gig.
A huge pet peeve of mine - please excuse yourself from the table if you get a cell phone call that you simply must answer.
tim in vermont said...
"Nobel-quality people don't just answer the phone inside the café. "
I agree with you 99.999999999999% But I wouldn't mind being in the café when a person got the Nobel Prize call, unless it was for literature, then they should take it outside like everybody else
literature or Peace :)
I was surprised to learn that Canada uses the 1 county code just like the USA.
He can take a barrel of oil and turn it into gasoline.
What can he do with sour mash??
'What can he do with sour mash??'
Great question...he could undoubtedly produce very fine spirits of any variety...
Canada and the US were early adopters of long distance telephony, before they had all of the details worked out, they just ran wired across the border. The Canada and US "country code" is really just "Dial one for long distance."
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