Steve Cohen

If I recall, the Curies coined the term “radioactivity”, reading from their 1898 paper.

Pencil drawing of a seated teddy bear

Photo of a seated brown teddy bear

My daughter and I just began an art challenge. First theme: stuffed animals. Here is mine. #artchallenges #drawing #drawsomething #pencildrawing

List of 13 rules to reduce intelligibility and communication at talks.

I’ve seen pretty much all of these at talks.

Walther Nernst published his groundbreaking "Thermodynamische Berechnung chemischer Affinitäten" 112 years ago in Ber. Deutsch. Chem. Ges., 47 (1914), 608-635. #ChemSky 🧪 Original is here: ia600607.us.archive.org/view_archive... and English is here: web.lemoyne.edu/giunta/Nerns...

Didn’t Dr Margaret Todd really invent the term?

I understand that the ACS Inclusivity Style Guide still does not include Gender & Sexuality nor Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality, and this has been missing for a whole year. What could *possibly* take a year to fix? Seriously? How does the ACS really support scientists then?

Berichte der Deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin Berichte der Deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin -- 1886-01-01 -- fascicules

140 years ago this month, Clemens Winkler announced the discovery of germanium in Ber Deutschen Chem Gesell, 19(1): 210–211. Fun fact: I used Ge wafers in my PhD research (apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...). #ChemSky 🧪 Read Winkler's paper here at gallica.bnf.fr/ark%3A/12148...

Would be fair to say “Mazel tov!”?

79 years ago this month, British chemist Arthur Walsh published in "Nature," 1947, Vol 159 (4031), p 165, describing cyclopropane and ethylene oxide less as triangular rings, and more as complexes using the π-bond of the C=C. #Chemsky 🧪 See the abstract here: openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3...

As a grad-student TA at Rice University in Houston, I would send freshmen home to change into closed-toe shoes and long trousers before letting them do lab work.

Actually it’s way past time. I’ve been waiting for famous folks to start promoting this for months.

The alternative is certainly not a good thing.

OMG

This month 103 years ago, Thomas Lowry published "The uniqueness of hydrogen". J Soc Chem Ind, 1923, vol 42 (3): 43–47. He proposed (independently of Brønsted) that acids donate protons, and bases accept protons. (I'd like to find the original article to link to, but cannot.) #ChemSky 🧪

I am curious as to why no one is calling out Ford for inviting a rapist felon.

Sorry: radon, not radium

126 years ago this month, Rutherford published his "A Radio-active Substance emitted from Thorium Compounds," Phil. Mag., Jan. 1900, ser. 5, xlix, pp. 1-14. He detected what was later known to be radium, and noted its half-life. Read the paper here: #ChemSky🧪 www.chemteam.info/Chem-History...

Three-phase 240 V electrical current

240 V three-phase power, when I was a stupid grad student

Bwahaha

Oh, how about mild-mannered van der Waals energy?

As in the man who wears masks…

Can you tell me where the quote is from?

On the last day of 1808, Gay-Lussac's "Memoir on the Combination of Gaseous Substances with Each Other," Mém. de la Soc. d'Arcueil 2, 207 appeared. It advanced Dalton's idea of atoms, and rejected Berthollet's variable proportions. #ChemSky 🧪 Read it here: web.lemoyne.edu/giunta/gaylu...

You’ve just opened a Chemistry themed pub. What are you calling it?

The Flask and Column

#ChemSky #ChemChat

Alkynes of Spirits

I became known in my shul as “the guy who speaks Yiddish to his kids.”

I will add that neither kid was thrilled with my insistence on Yiddish, but my daughter realized in high school that it was cool to be bilingual, when a friend commented on it.

איך האָב געהאָדעוועט מײַנע קינדער (איצט 23 און 29) אויף ייִדיש, מיט זייער מאַמען וואָס רעדט ייִדיש ניט—און איך בין אַפֿילו ניט קיין געבוירענער. ס׳איז יאָ מעגלעך.

“...un…”, not ”aun”. “Un” means “and” in Yiddish