August 27th, 2007
It runs in the family
Another in my ‘Superheroes of Science’ collection, Daniel E. Koshland.
His ‘Induced Fit’ hypothesis is now widely accepted, but that wasn’t always the case. He really had to convince people he was right, more than should be necessary. The scientific establishment is suprisingly resistant to change and Koshland nearly became a casualty of that sort of attitude.
But he persevered, and how… He went on to shape the journal ‘Science’ and helped change it from a stuffy accademic journal into an accessible and exciting read.
All that and he was an heir to the Levi-Strauss fortune, just goes to show, not everyone with money spends all day in the pool.
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Wow that was an obscure reference.
Why can’t the current crop of “heir to fashion fortunes” be like him?
Jeans. Genes.
My brain hurts.
Nothing is coincidence. I’ve released enzymes in my pants too. Accidentally, of course.
Ben, obscure is what I do… unless it is a pun.
I don’t know why fashion heirs of today refuse to take editorial control of academic journals and make important discoveries in the world of science, it’s like their hearts just aren’t in it
Golfwidow, if your brain hurts, you’re wearing your jeans wrong.
Seraphine, eeew.
But that was obscure AND a pun. I’ve got to say, I love a comic that needs a paragraph of explanation so that I can go back, read it and THEN plaster that knowing little smirk normally reserved for IT site call guys and unfriendly mechanics all over my face.
Beautiful.
i read something somwhere the other day, it said:
if decisiveness were in my genes, i’d wear them all summer.