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I grew up on a dairy farm in northern Wisconsin (near Wulff valley). I first became interested in chemistry one day when my father was feeding the pigs. In order to prevent problems with intestinal worms, copper sulfate was added to their feed. I was enamored with the beautiful blue crystals that he was sprinkling in the feed tray and asked what it was. I was only about eight and thus the answer “copper sulfate” was no more than a strange alien name, but somehow I got the impression that its name meant something about why it was blue. My father gave me a few crystals to keep and the next Christmas, a chemistry set. I was hooked. Also about the same time I decided that I had to be a Professor at a University since the new medium of television portrayed chemistry as a highly noble and respected profession (Sputnik had an enormous positive effect on science in general in the late fifties and sixties). The important lessons about how to be a successful scientist I would think are usually learned the
hard way. In my case they certainly were. These lessons also of course could not be learned without dedicated teachers that one encounters along the way. My High School Chemistry teacher, Mr. Schwartz, was actually a biologist filling in because of a retirement. Although he did not know a lot of chemistry, he was dedicated to helping students learn. He once picked me up at 4:00 AM and drove me across the state for a High School Chemistry fair. I had prepared a talk on an experiment that I had repeated from a Chemistry book. I was embarrassed to find that everyone else’s talk involved original experiments. The lesson learned from this is that science is about doing something new.
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Debarshi Chakraborty,Li Zheng,Yijing Dai, Jeff Gwasdacus, James E. Mctighe,William D. Wulff,Babak Borhan
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONSno. 84 (2023): 12629-12632
ACS CATALYSISno. 1 (2023): 426-436
Debarshi Chakraborty,Li Zheng,Yijing Dai, Jeff Gwasdacus, James E McTighe,William D Wulff,Babak Borhan
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)no. 84 (2023): 12629-12632
Wynter E G Osminski,Zhenjie Lu,Wenjun Zhao,Aliakbar Mohammadlou,Xiaopeng Yin, Emily C Matthews,Virginia M Canestraight,Richard J Staples, Connor J Allen,Jennifer S Hirschi,William D Wulff
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