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Anonymous Tue Mar 2 00:53:40 2021 No.12774520 [Reply] [Original]

Why are Chemists less popular than Physicists?

You hear about Einstein and Hawking and Feynman all the time but there is literally no modern equivalent of Louis Pasteur

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 00:54:47 2021 No.12774521 >>12774520 Chemistry is cringe.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:07:38 2021 No.12774561 It's because physics has a lot of PR propaganda. Tyson, Sagan, Kaku, etc are all science communicators who popularized science. Chemists don't have those kinds of failures.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:09:32 2021 No.12774564 >>12774561 Is it not also a hefty bit of politics? I remember Richard Feynman mentioning he got into some high class group of scientists in Academia and the other group members wanted to make sure no Chemists got in their secret club.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:13:05 2021 No.12774569 >>12774520 Linus Pauling

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:15:45 2021 No.12774573 Chemistry affects real life, we know about it because of the inventions: teflon, antibiotics, TNT. Physicists haven't invented anything of real world relevance since levers 2000 years ago so we only have names to go by.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:16:08 2021 No.12774574 >>12774569 who? >>12774564 After all the shit Ive witnessed I absolutely believe this over anything else

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:16:58 2021 No.12774575 >>12774574 https://youtu.be/f61KMw5zVhg

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:20:42 2021 No.12774583 >>12774561 Chemists have lots of media attention: Koch Brothers, Dow, Monsanto, Purdue Pharma, etc.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:25:55 2021 No.12774592 >>12774574 If you don't know who Linus Pauling is but complain chemists aren't well known that's on you

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:25:58 2021 No.12774593 >>12774575 based and virtue-pilled Thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:26:59 2021 No.12774596 >>12774592 Got me there, I guess?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:40:46 2021 No.12774627 Shulgin

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:46:44 2021 No.12774642 >>12774520 Physics is primarily used for Technology and Social Progress while Chemistry is used for pseudoscience and getting high as balls.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:48:32 2021 No.12774647 >>12774642 >pseudoscience Such as?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:48:58 2021 No.12774649 >>12774647 Source?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:49:45 2021 No.12774653 >>12774647 I can fix your brain with this new snake oil and solve all your life's problems.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:52:44 2021 No.12774660 >>12774520 Because they let physicists enjoy the spotlight and secretly make more money in the background. At least that is what I think. Or it might be just that the wow factor of physics is more than chemistry

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:54:38 2021 No.12774668 >>12774520 Because their silence aggrevates me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:57:03 2021 No.12774676 >>12774520 there are more jewish physicists

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:58:13 2021 No.12774678 File: 51 KB, 480x633, Avochadro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12774520 because chemists are the chads of stem

Anonymous Tue Mar 2 01:59:09 2021 No.12774684

>>12774520
Part of the problem is that the line between physics and chemistry has really gotten blurred--to the point that there's not a meaningful difference between the two anymore. More often than not, important chemists nowadays are also physicists and engineers, so the branding is all off.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 03:29:15 2021 No.12774865 >>12774520 I think Asimov was a chemist

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 04:24:41 2021 No.12774981 >>12774520 Physics is more fundamental. If you're looking for information about how things really are why stop half way? Just go for the real deal instead.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 04:30:02 2021 No.12774990 >>12774520 People are only impressed by "famous" people who do things and have sex. That's why you never hear normal niggers talk about chemtards or Math Chads.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 04:32:08 2021 No.12774992 >>12774865 But he's known for his books regardless of what he was. Just like the alice in wonder land guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 12:18:52 2021 No.12776225 Most of the well known scientific communicators are Physicists. Most chemists aren't into that rubbish. >12774981 Cope

Anonymous Tue Mar 2 12:21:52 2021 No.12776236

>>12774520

because it is less "spectacular"

No space-related crap (ie stars galaxies aliums etc)
No flashy shit
No layman friendly explanations

If only people knew how much the Haber Process revolutionized the whole world man.

Chemistry is fucking great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 12:22:04 2021 No.12776238 >>12774627 DUDE

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 12:23:04 2021 No.12776241 >>12774569 This

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 12:26:56 2021 No.12776253 >>12774520 Ali Hassan al-Majid

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 13:03:56 2021 No.12776401 >>12774627 BASED

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:02:07 2021 No.12776639 >>12774520 Because physics is universal. Fundamental laws of the universe, etc. This has greater popular appeal.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:03:12 2021 No.12776648 >>12774592 I have heard the name and i might have known what he did at some point in the past.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:04:19 2021 No.12776654 >>12774865 Biochemist and never worked in that field

Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:06:53 2021 No.12776666
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>>12774520
>i can give water a green hue and make it extremely bubbly... Im so smort

Vs

*picrel*

>See that Black Hole over there? IMMA GO IN IT AND COME BACK WITH THE FREAKING CURE FOR CANCER

Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:20:45 2021 No.12776732

>>12774520

Because theorists are the ones who are generally credited with updating our models and shifting our paradigms, and theoretical chem is indistinguishable from Physics. You have Pauling and Bohr who were Chemists who contributed substantially to Quantum Theory. Meanwhile nobody knows who Woodward is outside of Organic Chem.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:24:07 2021 No.12776748 >>12774520 Physicists are type A personalities, chemists are autistic neets who think their better than everyone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:43:48 2021 No.12776838 >>12774520 Physics has black holes and quantum mechanics. They're fun and challenging. Chemist's have a list of chemicals. Cool explosions sometimes, but mostly >put this into that and uWu what's this

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:54:00 2021 No.12776873 >>12776838 t. Retarded undergrad

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:54:42 2021 No.12776877 >>12776666 >Implying the guy who cures cancer won't be a chemist Fuck off with your devilish quads, Satan.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 2 14:56:28 2021 No.12776886 >>12776666 Quads of truth, chemists will seethe and cope

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 01:56:02 2021 No.12779424 >>12776236 >if you wish to expand your empire... >you must be able to feed your people t. my german professor on the haber process

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 02:02:13 2021 No.12779433 >>12774520 Linus Pauling

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 02:12:22 2021 No.12779451 >>12776648 Gave us our modern understanding of chemical bonds and orbitals, one of the founding fathers of molecular biology/biochem as well as genetics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 03:12:25 2021 No.12779550 >>12774653 If you think that's chemistry, you are on the wrong board.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 03:14:06 2021 No.12779557 Physics has a seemingly mystical component to it while chemistry is just confusing to the layman

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 04:28:28 2021 No.12779726 >>12774627 kek based

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 05:57:03 2021 No.12779892 >>12774521 please keep saying this while you depend on the the products chemists made every second of your life

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 08:38:30 2021 No.12780324 >>12776666 cringe physicists haven't done anything useful in half a century

Anonymous Wed Mar 3 09:37:32 2021 No.12780536
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>>12776666
>i can give water a green hue and make it extremely bubbly... Im so smort
Yes
Cope and seethe more physicuck. Everyone knows that these days the only physicists that contribute to anything other than intellectual masturbation are glorified code-monkeys

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 09:45:52 2021 No.12780570 >>12776666 Based T. Chemist

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 3 16:22:58 2021 No.12783445 File: 494 KB, 387x305, 1490197066986-f4d.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12774627

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