{"id":2444,"date":"2008-08-20T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/08\/acs-philadelphia-2008-the-boss.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:14:18","slug":"acs_philadelphia_2008_the_boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/08\/acs_philadelphia_2008_the_boss.html","title":{"rendered":"ACS Philadelphia 2008: The Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

You travel a good few thousand miles and the last thing you want to see is your boss (no offence Stu). Thankfully, he\u2019s back in the UK happy that I\u2019m here doing all the running around associated with an ACS<\/span> meeting, but I just can\u2019t seem to get away from pictures of him.<\/p>\n

I went to a talk by Sir Fraser Stoddart<\/a> yesterday at which he received the 2008 ACS<\/span> Arthur C. Cope award<\/a>. His talk was a nice run through of some of the beautiful work he\u2019s done (both aesthetically and chemically). Fraser likes to give credit to his old students by putting photos of them up on slides when he talks about the work they did. The Nature Chemistry<\/em><\/a> chief editor, Stuart Cantrill<\/a>, is a Stoddart prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and thus the talk was littered with Cantrill references and pictures, to the point where he was acknowledged, alongside Stuart Rowan<\/a> and Omar Yaghi<\/a>, as a pioneer of the newly branded area of chemistry \u2018mechanostereochemistry\u2019 \u2014 high praise indeed.<\/p>\n

Fraser even gave Nature Chemistry <\/em>a mention. Reaching more people than I ever could in my whole week here, he named Stuart as someone who as the founding editor of Nature Chemistry <\/em>could \u201cconsiderably influence how chemistry develops in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

And there was me thinking he was just someone who could considerably influence the time at which the Nature Chemistry <\/em>editors get their next cup of tea! Get the kettle on Stu!<\/p>\n

Gav<\/p>\n

Gavin Armstrong (Associate editor, Nature Chemistry<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You travel a good few thousand miles and the last thing you want to see is your boss (no offence Stu). Thankfully, he\u2019s back in the UK happy that I\u2019m here doing all the running around associated with an ACS meeting, but I just can\u2019t seem to get away from pictures of him.  Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-reports","category-gavin-armstrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}