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The world around is Life in is hard What we see is engineering is harder There is no money in chemistry Future is uncertain There is no need of chemistry Therefore, it is not my option I don’t have to learn chemistry Chemistry is life

Chemistry is chemicals Chemistry is memorizing things Chemistry is smell Chemistry is this and that- not sure Chemistry is fumes Chemistry is boring Chemistry is pollution Chemistry does not excite Chemistry is poison Chemistry is a finished subject Chemistry is dirty

Chemistry - stands on the legacy of giants

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) Marie Skłodowska (1867- 1934) John (1766- 1844) Sir Humphrey Davy (1778 – 1829) (1791 – 1867) Chemistry – our legacy

Mendeleev's Modern Periodic Table

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) Joseph John Thomson (1856 –1940) Great experimentalists

Ernest (1871-1937) Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858 –1937) Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) Chemistry and

Gilbert Lewis (1875 –1946) Harold Clayton Urey (1893- 1981) Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912- 1999) Linus Carl Pauling (1901– 1994) Master craftsmen

Robert Burns Woodward (1917 – 1979) Chemistry and the world

Fritz Haber (1868 – 1934) Machines in science

R. E. Smalley Great teachers

Graduate students : Other students :

1. 1. Herbert Kroemer 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. Paul Sophus Epstein 4. Walter Romberg 5. 6. Ernst Guillemin 7. Karl Bechert 8. 9. Herbert Fröhlich 10. 11. Helmut Hönl 12. Ludwig Hopf 13. 14. 15. Alfred Landé 16. 17. Arnold18. Rudolf Johannes Peierls Wilhel Sommerfeld (1868 –1951) 19. Walter Rogowski 20. Rudolf Seeliger 21. Heinrich Welker 22. Graduate students :

1. 2. 3. 4. Frederick George Donnan

Friedrich (1853 –1932) Standing on the shoulders

Arthur Amos Noyes (1866 – 1936) Chemistry and suffering

Fritz Haber (1868 – 1934) What is the chemistry of tomorrow?