Creative scientists

The brutal death from heart failure of Joachim in October 2001 was a severe blow to the progress of our project, but so much work had already been dedicated to it that there was no option but to bring it to completion, and to do so singlehandedly. Tragically, Dr. Nabil El Tayar, another of my closest friends, had known the same fate a few weeks earlier. The book is dedicated to the memory of these two bright and creative scientists. 

There are (at least) two major opportunities for research by those interested in this topic. On the computational side, there is definite room for improvement in simulation methods. Right now none of the simulation approaches has the user friendliness that has brought electronic-structure calculation into the realm of routine applicability by nonspecialists. Nor has the field seen the development of the qualitative or semiquantitative models that did so much to make the results of molecular orbital calculations useful to organic chemists. On the experimental side, it will be obvious to the reader that the techniques for detecting the effects of nonstatistical dynamics are still very rudimentary and indirect. There is clearly room for creative scientists to come up with techniques whose results can give us more direct insight into these issues. 

The untimely death of Jack H. Schulman, a truly brilliant and creative scientist, is reported with profound regret. Those who worked with him share a deep sorrow in this tragic event. 

This brief summary of the state of current instrumentation for the total automation of pesticide analyses will hopefully entice the reader to apply these principles of mechanized unit operations to his own analytical problems. There are enough creative scientists in this field, each trying to lighten his workload, that it seems safe to make this prediction by 1984 we ll have a pesticide analyzer which will take our unmeasured, untreated sample into one end of the instrument and give us final answers, printed in correct concentration units, twice as fast as today, with one tenth the sample size, and with half the CV s. If an analyst makes up his mind to do so, he can likely automate anything. 

Wide contacts. The putting together of unrelated facts to produce a new idea is aided greatly by discussions with other people. These can be other scientists, marketing colleagues and customers. Keeping creative scientists in an ivory tower is an intellectual imprisonment... 

The personalities of creative scientists, or the inventor types of person, mean that they are much more likely to change their behaviour in response to new ideas and processes. This means that they are much happier working in new areas or topics rather than within old or existing ones, where they can easily become bored. They like to change tack in the light of new data and so will be frustrated working a well mined seem. In these areas, their ideas are likely to be met with comments from the established practitioners such as, we tried that five years ago and it did not work . 

Creative individuals often dream up certain solutions, products offantasy that question conventional wisdom. However, dreaming must not be the sole activity and should not impede the ability to make specific decisions when required. Optimism, is also a notable characteristic of the creative scientist, believing that there might be a solution , where the pessimist would rather say, there might not be a solution . 

It is particularly important that review services of this nature should have included the area of methods and techniques, because it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep abreast of the manifold experimental innovations and improvements which constitute the limiting factor in many cases for the growth of the experimental sciences. Concepts and vision of creative scientists far outrun that which can actually be attained in present practice. Therefore, an emphasis on methodology and instrumentation is a fundamental need in order for material achievement to keep in sight of the advance of useful ideas. 

The synthesis and drug development process is time consuming and requires the efforts of a multitude of scientists. Clearly, although the author of this review, I played a much smaller role in the overall process. The multiple synthetic iterations of this complex molecule are a testament to the creative scientists with whom 1 have worked. I greatly acknowledge these chemists and they are listed as authors on the Merck publications in the following references. 

He was not only a creative scientist, but also a stimulating teacher. His book Introduction to Coordination Chemistry" is very popular among chemistry students in Japan. 

Parmerter, S.M. and Garber, J.P., "Creative Scientists Rate Creativity Factors", Research Management, Vol.XIV, No. 6,... 

Frederic L. Holmes has justly remarked, "it is from finely detailed case studies of the investigations of highly creative scientists that we are most likely to reach eventually a clearer understanding of the general nature of creative imagination in science." So an essential aspect of my study of the rise of structure theory is to place Kekule s work in such a more finely detailed context, for 1 believe that Kekule was the most supremely successful practitioner of the creative intellectual skills that lie at the heart of the transition 1 want to study. In the process, 1 will also closely examine several of Kekule s mentors, students, associates, rivals, and enemies, from ca. 1840 to ca. 1890, as well as the particularly instructive case of one of Kekule s most eminent senior contemporaries, Hermann Kopp (1817-92). 

As outlined in Section 2.4 (The Antithesis), polyolefins are mass products that are produced under severe cost pressures. Nonetheless, skilled and creative scientists have been able to optimize these polymers, and to squeeze out the last percent of performance required for them to outperform in such a tough market segment. 

This book is dedicated to Professor William N. Lipscomb, creative scientist, clarinetist, Nobel Laureate, and Kentucky Colonel. 

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