{"id":443,"date":"2019-01-26T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T08:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/?page_id=443"},"modified":"2019-01-26T08:55:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T08:55:27","slug":"humor-defining-moment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/herbert-c-brown-ph-d\/humor-defining-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor, Defining Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"midpage\">\n<h1>Herbert C Brown Ph.D.<\/h1>\n<p><b>The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979<br \/>\nThe President&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/od\/nms\/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Medel of Sciences<\/a> &#8211; Physical Sciences, 1969<\/b><br \/>\nNobel co-recipient <a href=\"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/georg-wittig-ph-d\/\">Georg Wittig<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"profilebk\">Organic Chemist. Development of use of boron into important reagents in organic synthesis. School, advanced several times, graduating at 12; refused further advancement, avoiding being sister&#8217;s classmate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Graduating, Depression years, future wife Sarah gave him gift, Stock&#8217;s<\/em> &#8216;Hydrides of Boron and Silicon&#8217; <em>because cheapest chemistry book! Led to Nobel Prize!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"heading center\">Humor, Defining Moment<\/p>\n<p>Why did I decide to undertake my doctorate research in the exotic field of boron hydrides? As it happened, my girl friend, Sarah Baylen, soon to become my wife, presented me with a graduation gift, Alfred Stock&#8217;s book, <em>The Hydrides of Boron and Silicon<\/em>. I read this book and became interested in the subject. How did it happen that she selected this particular book? This was the time of the Depression. None of us had much money. It appears she selected as her gift the most economical chemistry book ($2.06) available in the University of Chicago bookstore. <b>Such are the developments that can shape a career<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbert C Brown Ph.D. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979 The President&#8217;s National Medel of Sciences &#8211; Physical Sciences, 1969 Nobel co-recipient Georg Wittig Organic Chemist. Development of use of boron into important reagents in organic synthesis. School, advanced several times, graduating at 12; refused further advancement, avoiding being sister&#8217;s classmate. Graduating, Depression years, future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":411,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443\/revisions\/444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schultzwebdesign.se\/GL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}