Discovery research assignments

Chemists participating in a narrowly defined, initial development campaign engage in teamwork more than their colleagues in medicinal chemistry. As a result of this and other factors, individual contributions can be more difficult to quantify than in discovery research. Process chemists are partly judged by how completely and promptly they carry out assigned tasks that represent important elements of the whole effort. 

John K. Smith. The Ten-Year Invention Neoprene and DuPont Research, 1930-1939. Technology and Culture. 26 (Jan. 1985) 34-55. Source for discovery of superpolymer in molecular still rubber as addition polymer others condensation Nieuwland Collins assigned DVA problem marketing Neoprene and new products in Depression. 

Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) was the nineteenth-century scientist who studied the phosphorescence phenomenon most intensely. Continuing Stokes s research, he determined the excitation and emission spectra of diverse phosphors, determined the influence of temperature and other parameters, and measured the time between excitation and emission of phosphorescence and the duration time of this same phenomenon. For this purpose he constructed in 1858 the first phosphoroscope, with which he was capable of measuring lifetimes as short as 10-4 s. It was known that lifetimes considerably varied from one compound to the other, and he demonstrated in this sense that the phosphorescence of Iceland spar stayed visible for some seconds after irradiation, while that of the potassium platinum cyanide ended after 3.10 4 s. In 1861 Becquerel established an exponential law for the decay of phosphorescence, and postulated two different types of decay kinetics, i.e., exponential and hyperbolic, attributing them to monomolecular or bimolecular decay mechanisms. Becquerel criticized the use of the term fluorescence, a term introduced by Stokes, instead of employing the term phosphorescence, already assigned for this use [17, 19, 20], His son, Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), is assigned a special position in history because of his accidental discovery of radioactivity in 1896, when studying the luminescence of some uranium salts [17]. 

UI will hold solely for your benefit and will fully and promptly disclose to you and assign in writing to you without additional payment all of my right, title and interest in and to all those discoveries, inventions and improvements which have been or shall be made, conceived or reduced to practice by me, either alone or with others, in the courts of my employment with you and which fall within the scope of your business activities, investigations, or research programs, as heretofore or hereafter conducted or definitely contemplated, and whether made within or outside of my usual work hours and whether on or off your premises. 

In much the same way that metabolomics can be used to infer function of unknown genes, it is likely to be increasingly used in the determination of mode of action of biologically active substances, be they naturally occurring or synthetic. Early efforts in this regard have heavily focused upon the discovery of new herbicides with novel modes of action, this is considered a priority assignment in plant protection research, see Grossmann (2005) for an example. 

Archimedean Solids. Archimedean solids283 (also known as Archimedean bodies284 and Archimedean polyhedra255) were until recently much less studied than the Platonic solids. They came into the focus of research interest after the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a pure carbon molecule consisting of 60 atoms, and assignment of its structure as that of the truncated icosahedron.32 As far as we know, buckminsterfullerene is the only real molecule whose structure is modeled by an Archimedean solid. Nevertheless, the Archimedean solids are occasionally studied, usually in conjunction with the Platonic solids and other polyhedra, e.g.285 287... 

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