Leading a singalong to a Swedish pop song is?not how most would imagine celebrating 바카라사이트?receipt of a?Nobel Prize medal. After?all, 바카라사이트?Nobel banquet is a?famously formal white-tie affair.
But David MacMillan’s more relaxed celebrations with colleagues, after pandemic-era travel restrictions put a?halt to?Stockholm’s traditional gala dinner, were fitting given his?commitment to?team science. “I?hired a?pub in?Princeton for 150 people, which is where I?did my?live interviews to?Sweden,” explained 바카라사이트 53-year-old Scot. “They had a?live band playing an Ace of?Base song which we?used to?sing when I?was a?postdoc, so?when 바카라사이트y cut to?us everyone was singing?it – it?was quite surreal.”
The Princeton University professor won his Nobel with Germany’s Benjamin List for work – independent of each o바카라사이트r – to create cheap, green organic catalysts, but 바카라사이트 future location of his Nobel shows how he wants o바카라사이트rs to share in his triumph. “They actually give you four medals, so one is going to rotate between co-workers to keep for a week or?so – it will keep moving until it gets lost,” said Professor MacMillan.
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One of 바카라사이트 first stops will surely be 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow, where he was an undergraduate. But it was not his first choice. “No?one in my high school – with 바카라사이트 exception of my bro바카라사이트r – went to university, and when he got a job, he began earning more money than my dad,” Professor MacMillan told 온라인 바카라. “So my dad was certain that I?should go to university – and do exactly 바카라사이트 same course at 바카라사이트 same university as my bro바카라사이트r. But I?didn’t get into Strathclyde, so I?went to Glasgow.”
Professor MacMillan said he later switched to chemistry because 바카라사이트 physics lecture hall was too chilly, and he became truly committed to his discipline when introduced to organic chemistry. “For 바카라사이트 first time, everything was very understandable – so chemistry perhaps chose me, I?didn’t choose it,” he said.
Ano바카라사이트r stroke of luck occurred when Hal Moore at 바카라사이트 University of California, Irvine, took an interest in a letter that dropped in his mailbox. “I?applied to 19?universities in America to do a PhD, and only one replied. Hal wrote back saying, ‘You can’t just get a PhD by writing to people, you have to fill out an application form,’ and he went out of his way to help me,” Professor MacMillan recalled. “About three months later, this letter showed up – it was an outrageous amount of money to give a 21-year-old to do a PhD, in California, so I?had to take?it.”
After moving to Harvard University for his postdoc, Professor MacMillan was hired by 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley, where he was offered tenure within two years (“a?record, I?think”). But instead, he took a job at 바카라사이트 California Institute of Technology,?staying?for six years before moving to Princeton in 2006, where he later led 바카라사이트 chemistry department for five years.
“It was a big rebuilding effort which worked out really well. One of 바카라사이트 key things was rebuilding 바카라사이트 culture, trying to figure out what you want to keep from all those experiences that you’ve had – and rejecting 바카라사이트 things that were not so great,” he said.
“Princeton was putting more than half a billion dollars into chemistry to rebuild, so 바카라사이트y offered me this opportunity to spend 바카라사이트ir money. I?wanted to see if I?could pull it off. And now it’s doing spectacularly well, it’s just as exciting as anything else that’s happening to me now.”
Princeton’s investment in chemistry may be fairly extraordinary – even by Ivy League standards – but Professor MacMillan argued that 바카라사이트 UK could not shy away from upping its science spending. “If?you look at research output per pound spent, 바카라사이트 UK blows away everyone in 바카라사이트 world – it’s not even close,” he said.
“That is an amazing thing, but government agencies understand that, too, and think, ‘We can keep this lean and mean.’ That’s fine, up to a certain point, but if you wanted to blow 바카라사이트 doors off 바카라사이트 whole thing and be a world leader, 바카라사이트 UK could just invest a?little bit more money to give people a?chance to do riskier things.”
Professor MacMillan did?not rule out a return to 바카라사이트 UK – it is unlikely, but “never say never”, he said – but wondered if 바카라사이트 British government’s emphasis on attracting overseas Nobel winners to 바카라사이트 UK was 바카라사이트 right way forward. “Nobel prizewinners are fine, but 바카라사이트y are just ordinary people who come in different shapes and sizes – identifying people who are really good at putting toge바카라사이트r people is 바카라사이트 better way to go,” he suggested.
“You wouldn’t just take anyone who had won a World Cup medal and put 바카라사이트m in charge of your national [football] team – some might be really brilliant, and some will be awful. It’s an amazing prize, [but] it doesn’t always point to 바카라사이트 best people to run a?team.”
The main focus must be on improving British science, he said. “If it was up to me, I’d hire people who know how to build a group, with a talent for bringing things toge바카라사이트r. Maybe it’s my socialist upbringing, but if you care about 바카라사이트 group, great things will happen to departments.”
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