Talent

I may have some talent for coping with administrative duties and dealing with people, but it never affected me in the ways I have sometimes observed it did others. When in my early years in Hungary I was helping to start a small research institute of the Academy of Sciences,... 

It is frequently said that the scientific career of professors is made by their students and associates who de facto carry out their joint research. I am no exception. However, I first had to create my own little research enclave with an atmosphere and spirit conducive to carrying out our work. I also feel that I was able to motivate my students, to bring out from them talents and efforts that sometimes surprised even them. It was a most rewarding experience to see that most of my students, when they became interested and motivated, achieved much and turned themselves into excellent, productive, and increasingly independent researchers. 

Once I had decided on a career in chemistry, I was determined rather single-mindedly to make a success of it. I sometimes think about what would have happened had I chosen a different occupation or field. Having a rather competitive nature, I could probably have done reasonably well in a number of other areas. Certainly for some fields you must be born with a special talent. Musical talent, artistic ability, business acumen, leadership ability, and vision can be further developed. 

A researcher studying a specialty chemical business or a specific specialty chemical company should pay particular attention to these nidiments innovative talents, service faciUties and performance, marketing abiUties, and responsiveness to customer needs. Of these, the last may be the key criterion in most cases. A company that frequendy is first with the solution to a customer s problem (even if the solution is sometimes less than perfect) usually holds the customer and a dominant market share against future competition. 

Similarly, airborne emission limits have been estabHshed by the NRC for nonrestricted areas. Limits of surface contamination must be estabHshed to provide a safe workplace for users (19). The appHcation of the as-low-as-reasonably-achievable (ALARA) principle to the above draws on the creative talents of the user to regard the limits as nonapproachable barriers and not as tolerable maxima for discharge. 

The R D function itself will be organized from company to company in very different ways. In some firms, the responsibiUty for innovation will be broadly shared and a distinct R D unit may cease to exist. In others, technical developments from an R D lab will be the principal source of innovation for the business. In still others, the primary task of the R D or technology group will be to obtain technology from outside the firm. Those involved in R D will need to make certain that their knowledge and talents impact the business irrespective of their precise function. The innovation process will become less linear (Fig. 8) as more feedback loops, technology transfer, and cooperative efforts are involved. 

A talented teacher, tutor and lecturer he delivered lectures on general and special courses for university students, and trained his students to expertise of high rank. He supervised 50 PhD and 9 D.Sc theses, and founded the Kyiv. School of Analytical Chemists. 

In celebrating the centenary of the birth of Anatoly K. Babko we appreciatively recall his diligence, scientific, pedagogical and organizing talents. His active and purposeful character will always feature in our strikingly kind memory of Anatoly K. Babko - who through all his life maintained a love and loyalty to science. 

In the 1930s, the world s greatest migration of scientists took place under the lash of Nazism. It has sometimes been asserted that Hitler may have lost the War because of the talent he forced to flee, and that the American development of the atomic bomb that shortened the War so drastically might have been much slower without that migration. Other, less cataclysmic, consequences also flowed from the migration, and this Section is devoted to one of them. 

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I consider it right that every talented man should be at liberty to make improvements, but that the supposed improvements should be duly considered by proper judges. 

The editor wishes to extend his thanks to each of the contributors of this book who so willingly gave of their time and talents, and he wishes to extend his personal gratitude to Dr. Nelson J. Leonard for initially stimulating his interest in enamines and for his continuing interest over the years. 

Andre-Marie Ampere was born m Lyons, France, the son of a wealthy merchant. Ampere s education was determined by his father, Jean-Jacques, who followed Jean Jacques Rousseau s theories of education. Ampere was left to educate himself, as his inclinations dictated, among the books of his father s extensive library. At an early age Ampere discovered a talent for mathematics, working out the early books of Euclid by himself. On finding that some of the books he wished to consult in the librai y in Lyons were in Latin, he taught himself the language. Ampere s mother was a devout Catholic, who ensured he was thoroughly instructed in the faith. 

Enrico Fermi was both a brilliant theorist and an unusually gifted experimentalist — a combination of talents seldom found among twentieth-century physicists. Born in 1901 in Rome, Fermi obtained his doctor s degree in physics magna cum laude from the University of Pisa at the age of 21, with a dissertation on x-rays. 

The son of a tailor, Joseph Fourier was a member of a large family. Both of his parents died by the time he was nine. His education began at a local, church-run, military school, where he quickly showed talent in his studies and especially in mathematics. His school persuaded him to tram as a priest. While preparing to take holy orders he taught his fellow novices mathematics. Fourier may well have entered the priesthood, but due to the French Revolution new priests were banned from taking holy orders. Instead he returned to his home town of Auxerre and taught at the militaiy school. His friend and mathematics teacher, Bonard, encouraged him to develop his mathematical research, and at the end of 1789 Fourier travelled to Paris to report on this research to the Academic des Sciences. 

France lost many of its teachers during the first years of the Revolution. One of the solutions to the shortage of teachers was the establishment of the Ecole Normale in Paris. Fourier, as a teacher and an active member of the Popular Society in Auxerre, was invited to attend in 1795. His attendance at the shortlived Ecole gave him the opportunity to meet and study with the brightest French scientists. Fourier s own talent gained him a position as assistant to the lecturers at the Ecole Normale. 

His talents were many an intuitive grasp of mathematics, a remarkable memory and an original approach. Fourier was a man of great common sense, a utilitarian, and a positivist. 

Remarkable for someone so talented in the arts, Fulton was able to use his accomplished drawing skills to express his designs. As a now noted draftsman, he invented numerous pieces of equipment such as tools to saw marble, spin flax, make rope and excavate earth. Sadly, he once lost many of his original manuscripts during a shipping accident. 

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