From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Tue Nov 12 11:50:11 2002 Received: from facstaff.wesleyan.edu ([129.133.1.61]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id gACGoAQ11302 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:50:11 -0500 Received: from wesleyan.edu (ion.chem.wesleyan.edu [129.133.89.89]) by facstaff.wesleyan.edu (8.11.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id gACGo7u12286 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:50:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DD13011.2050607@wesleyan.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:45:05 -0500 From: Surjit Dixit Reply-To: sdixit@wesleyan.edu Organization: Wesleyan University User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "chemistry@ccl.net" Subject: Re: CCL:whom to teach what References: <3DD091FB.94083ADC@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ECS-MailScanner: Found to be clean I am not sure if we are taught anywhere about "how to talk to a 'scientist from such and such a field'". I guess the talent to "talk" is something each individual develops to different degree depending on their own interest and approach to the problem at hand. We were watching the dramatised version of the times before the discovery of DNA structure in the film "The Race to the Double Helix" yesterday. The Watson and Crick achievment was greatly driven by their ability to "talk", grasp and appreciate all the various bits of information about DNA that was floating around in the various communities. Whosoever may do the talking, the result is good for science. The need to talk is crucial for researchers in any field if they wish to answer the "big" questions and get the usefulness of their work appreciated by the other community. This becomes especially true for the computational chemist, since our field is the new-comer and is demanding the recognition. Surjit Dr. Richard L. Wood wrote: >I wonder what courses these "computational chemists" took that I didn't take... > >Richard > >Mihaly Mezei wrote: > > > >>>of chemists, and so on. To a degree, I am plugged in to the experimental >>>program. "How to talk to the lab chemists" seems to be one of the weaker >>>points in the academic training of new computational chemists. As the field >>>becomes increasingly specialized ("a recognizable science"), I wonder how >>>this connection, important to the industrial side, will be maintained? >>> >>> >>Hmmm. What about teaching the lab chemists to talk to the computational >>chemists? >> >>Mihaly Mezei, >> >>Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine >> Voice: (212) 241-2186 Fax: (212) 860-3369| >> WWW (MSSM home): http:// >> adsr13.mssm.edu/domains/dept/facultyInfo.epl?objname=physbio&user=mezeim01 >> WWW (Lab home - software, publications): http://inka.mssm.edu/~mezei >> >> >> > >-- >Richard L. Wood, Ph. D. >Physical/Computational Chemist > > > > > >-= This is automatically added to each message by mailing script =- >CHEMISTRY@ccl.net -- To Everybody | CHEMISTRY-REQUEST@ccl.net -- To Admins >Ftp: ftp.ccl.net | WWW: http://www.ccl.net/chemistry/ | Jan: jkl@ccl.net > > > > > > > > >