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Tag Archives: ferrocene
The molecular TIE fighter
Where did the inspiration for the TIE fighters in Star Wars come from? Well, we surely can’t rule out that George Lucas read this Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie paper from 1953 and was particularly struck by the following … Continue reading
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Tagged ferrocene, fun, journals, publishing, Star Wars, TIE fighter
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How the job market used to work…
For reasons that will become apparent in a few months (it’s not that exciting), I have spent a lot of today looking at papers associated with the discovery and early structural studies of ferrocene. I have come across wonderful footnotes … Continue reading
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Tagged ferrocene, footnotes, journals, peter pauson, publishing
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