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Compared to Mathematicians and Physicists, is Chemistry a difficult field? I'm sure at the very top end it can be as difficult as you like it, but Chem doesn't seem to attract quite the same level of high IQ autists as Math and Physics. I'm also curious about the comparison to Biology as well.

>> No.15465530

*Compared to the work of

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Picrel.

>> No.15465539

>>15465521
It does. It's just math and phy majors are pseuds spamming their le high iq scores online

>> No.15465547

>>15465521
good pic, demonstrates that today science is fake, just like those models are not scientists. whole western "civilization" is makeup upon makeup.

>> No.15465551

>>15465521
It is basically memorization+thermodynamics/stadistical mechanics. It attracts a lot of woman because at the core it removes a lot of the work that requires critical thinking unless you go into post graduate level subjects.
The reason biology is packed with women, it is because you just have to be a fucking parrot for most of the major (which is why biology is such and uncreative field that constantly needs to poke talent from physics and math to develop new things)

>> No.15465638

>>15465521
there is literally no money in chemistry unless your pushing some type of drug farm lab. The job market for that is extreeemely saturated and average salary is low or no jobs.

>> No.15465695

>>15465551
Seems to be popular with Indians too, probably because their education system is built around memorization.

>> No.15465806

>>15465638
Chemestry is useful with math and physics. Chemical engineering is a super Chadish discipline
>>15465695
Pretty much. Also when a country is developing the first industry to develop is the chemical industry as it is the building block of everything else. If you like chemestry just do chemical engineering and you will become a multidisciplinary chad

>> No.15465808

>>15465806
Also condensed matter physics= grown up chemestry

>> No.15466457

>>15465806
Does a Chemical Engineering program subsume the content of a chemistry degree?

>> No.15466476

>>15466457
Not all of it obviously but a big part of it yes

>> No.15467778

>>15465638
This is wrong , you just have to not be mediocre (which most people are)

>> No.15467790

>>15467778
Yeah no shit, there is also money in roller blading if you are not mediocre. The thing with chemestry is that you need some capital requirements that literally block you from doing something meaningful without a company/financial investor sponsoring the research and good fucking luck with that even if you are in the top 0.01% of chemists without good social skills or connections.
>Academia
Most laboratories in universities are very deficient for meaningful research and there is a huge leap between a lab trial and scaling it up to an industrial production.
Almost all the money in chemestry is in chemical engineering and if you have more interested in the pure chemestry you can learn that on the side to become a big dick energy engineer that can actually be assigned meaningful research projects

>> No.15467801

>>15467790
Okay, sounds like you know more than me. Just I only know a handful of chemists /chemical engineers, and the chemists are earning more than the ChemEs at the moment. One of the chemists went into finance and is very handsomely paid

>> No.15467807

>>15467790
Okay, sounds like you know more than me. Just I only know a handful of chemists /chemical engineers, and the chemists are earning more than the ChemEs at the moment. One of the chemists went into finance and is paid handsomely

>> No.15467809

>>15467807
>>15467801
>>15467807
>>15467801
Oops, dont know what happened there lol.

>> No.15468847

>>15465521
I’m a synthesist, it’s fun. The theory is easy if you just want to understand it from a perspective of pushing electrons. Generally high IQ autists aren’t here but my department has a preference for social maturity. Biology seems to have a lot more bottom feeders because of how much pre-health people study it.

>>15465638
Job market is solid in pharma although it varies based on macroeconomic factors

>> No.15468848

>>15465521
Im jealous of your science.

>> No.15469168

>>15465521
chemistry was solved in the 1900s, now it's just about making random chemicals (easy) to see what works for different applications (hard).

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t. Rising Senior biologist who is in a microbiology research lab who will apply for PhD in the Fall:

Academic bio is so fucking easy. Relevantly, the hardest part of every biology degree at my school is the chemistry requirements (Gen Chen and orgo 1 and 2).

The upperclassmen biology classes are EASIER than the “weed outs”(1107, genetics), while every chemistry class is a weed out (Gen chem for normies, ochem, pchem, biochem, etc)

Bio is almost 100% memorization, chemistry is application, math, physics, AND memorization.

If you didn’t make it in biology, there’s a good chance you won’t make it in chem