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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Subject: Re: UNUSUAL CHEMISTRY JOBS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.195531.6727@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov17.142214.10463@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:55:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.142214.10463@syma.sussex.ac.uk> kapb9@syma.sussex.ac.uk
- (Robin Harrison) writes:
- > Are there any chemists out there who have
- >interesting research jobs which might be of interest
- >to young students - the more unusual the better!
-
- My sister-in-law works in a fairly ordinary-looking chemistry lab,
- but the "chemicals" she works with are not the sort of noxious potions
- the general public generally thinks of when they think of chemistry:
- She analyzes grapes for a winery. (Well, OK, so they do use all sorts
- of nasty organic solvents when they extract the grapes, but at least the
- primary materials are food!) She spends almost as much time crushing
- grapes as she does washing glassware. (Those of you who have worked in
- either analytical or synthetic labs will realize the importance of this
- last comment.)
- Does anyone know what proportion of chemists are involved in the food and
- beverage industry? I would guess that a lot of them (us? I never know
- whether to count academic weanies like me in this sort of thing.) do.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-