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October 28, 2005
driving slow on Sunday morning / and I never want to leave
Richard Smalley died today after a lengthy battle with cancer. Internationally renowned for his work in nanotechnology, Smalley was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996 for co-discovering buckminster fullerenes, a new form of carbon.
Smalley was a professor at Rice University and a founder of Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc., a Texas-based company that produces carbon nanotubes.
More on Richard Smalley’s achievements can be found on SmallTimes.com.
I’ve been quite busy this week trying to get ready for my conference next week. I only have 3 days as today and yesterday I’ve been in the Golden Jubilee Symposia of my Mat Sci & Eng department. It has been was more interesting that I expected. That have been some really amazing speakers over a wide wide wide range of topics. One forgets how much mat sci and eng covers. We’ll just say there is nothing you touch that doesn’t involve a materials scientist. Some talks have also given be a good bunch of information for a personal statement that is on my plate to write.
Crazy day in a crazy week for the news as Libby got indicted. The cover-up is always the problem. I am undecided if the reveling of “Flame”’s name was a crime. I am glad, though, to see that the Bush Administration is being held accountable for thinking they are above the law. I can respect a difference in politics of mine and the Bush administration; what has always bothered me was the moral superiority of the Bush administration. They have routinely acted like they are accountable to no one. I am glad that someone is finally holding them accountable.
And yesterday, as I got ready, Meirs was a nominee, as I got in my car, no long a nominee.
Ah, this symposia makes me want to stay in research, but only in the romantic sense. I love the feel of discovery, but hate the lack of it. I know that my skills will be best used in my current plan (the funding/management side). I say that I just don’t have the heart for research, but I do, or I wouldn’t have gotten this far. I just want to do more than just research. I want to enable other people to do valuable research. I sit here and thing, ooooohhhh, the is cool. I want to do that. I forgot that these people are showing years of data. Thesis of data. It is the in between times that are tough.
Posted by christina at October 28, 2005 4:49 PM