After my half way point, I think I did pretty well on the research part,
so I presented a cobalt complex and Neil Shore was on my committee
and he's a nice guy, he really is.
That’s the thing. A lot of the times you get stumped up
it's not because they are actively mean,
it’s because they are scientists and are just actually curious.
Turns out Neil Shore worked for this guy Bob Burman,
I don't know if anybody's aware but,
huge father of transition metal mechanisms for organometallic catalysts.
And I didn't know this at the time,
but at our halfway point he runs upstairs with a smile.
He's like, "I'll be right back!"
And I see it! He runs! Like, this old man, you know, running!
He runs back downstairs with a paper in his hand.
And when we start back up. He's all excited. He's like
He shows it!
And it's a old time EPR spectra
on a piece of paper where they
dragged the pen across of a cobalt complex he says.
And he's like can you tell me the
oxidation state and I'm like,
"Oh my! I don't know any -- I don't take EPR.
EPR's not relevant to my compounds
cause I already know that EPR doesn't work
on my type of compounds.
He helped guide me through it.
So it didn't end up too bad, and I still got through the QE
So it wasn't too bad.
But when he came running down those stairs with that grin on his face. I knew something was about to happen!
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Did you get a full pass?
Yeah, I still got the full pass, but he was just excited to be able to take out his
old-time EPR spectra from like the 1980s
