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DESCRIPTION:A generalist in science is a kind of intellectual ragpicker. I 
 am one. It's great fun\, it's easier than really working for a living\, and
  it more than pays the bills. My professional life has been spent following
  my nose\, and the path along which I have staggered has been more than err
 atic--from biologicals to chaos\, and from organometallic compounds (chimer
 as of metals and organic matter) to the origin of life. Many of the best th
 ings that have happened to me have happened entirely by accident. Mix the s
 cience with teaching\, with business\, and with public policy\, and add the
  more substantial and less peculiar joys and sorrows (e.g.\, marriage and c
 hildren)\, and the result is mostly bewilderment. As I said\, great fun.
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\nProf George Whitesides received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry fro
 m Harvard University in 1960 and then went on to the California Institute o
 f Technology where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1964 (with J.D. Roberts). He
  is currently a researcher at Harvard University where he joined the Depart
 ment of Chemistry in 1982. He was Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry there
  from 1982-2004 and department chairman between 1986 and 1989. He is best k
 nown for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy\, organometallic chemist
 ry\, self-assembly\, soft lithography\, microfabrication\, microfluidics\, 
 and nanotechnology and has received numerous awards for his work\, includin
 g the National Medal of Science in 1998 and the North American Kyoto Prize 
 in 2003 for lifetime achievements in technology and science. 
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\nIn asso
 ciation with Royal Society of Chemistry
SUMMARY:The intellectual ragpicker
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