Commemoration for Jack Dunitz’s 100th Birthday on 29 March 2023 — Famous Friends

I intend to set down here some details of my interaction with these remarkable men and women. Since their scientific merits are well known, I need not discuss them here but shall restrict myself as far as possible to my own personal interaction with them. In the first place, I wish to stress that I...

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Published in:Molecular Frontiers journal 2023, Vol.7 (Supp02), p.108-161
Main Author: Dunitz, Jack David
Format: Article
Language:English
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74 Nobel Laureates
Caltech
Careers
Contact stresses
Leading Scientists
NIH
Royal Institution
Scientists
University of Oxford
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Summary:I intend to set down here some details of my interaction with these remarkable men and women. Since their scientific merits are well known, I need not discuss them here but shall restrict myself as far as possible to my own personal interaction with them. In the first place, I wish to stress that I have never “collected” Nobel Prize winners, never tried to contact scientists simply because they were already in this elevated category. With one or two exceptions, the scientists I mention in these pages had not yet made the journey to Stockholm at the time I became acquainted with them. Rather, it seems that throughout my career I have had the good fortune to have had contact with people who were destined to make important contributions to the progress of science. Lucky Jack!
ISSN:2529-7325
2529-7333
DOI:10.1142/S2529732523500013