“I quit UVA after three weeks.” -Wolf Prize winning chemist Stuart Schreiber

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3 points·benrapscallion··6 comments

A few people create and advance a field: Peter Kollmann and the dynamicists, John Pople and the theoreticians, Clark Still or Garland Marshall or the other modellers. A few more of us are the pairs of hands that help realize their ideas. The tools then spread into the commercial areas that make stuff, hopefully helping progress. There’s more to software than selling ads and monetizing user data.

Editorialised title.

Because of HN’s word limit.

"Lab Meeting: Stuart Schreiber" is 30 characters.

HN's limit is 80.

Try again?

What is your point? I tried to pick out a quote that was a reason for submitting this, that highlights how the world could’ve lost a great chemist to a first-year undergrad professor’s rule. That quote is not 80 characters.

That point is generally better made in a comment.

You can submit one with the link.

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