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- W3099133092 abstract "Throughout the 1980s, while the molecule collectors were busy exploring the ocean sediments, tracking their finds into the past, and learning to read the messages hidden in the carbon skeletons, one analytical chemist cum geochemist at Indiana University was finding that important elements of the lexicon lay not only in the molecular structures, stereochemistry, and distributions of the carbon skeletons, but in the carbon atoms themselves. John Hayes had done his graduate work at MIT in the mid-1960s under Klaus Biemann, one of the doyens of mass spectrometry who, like Carl Djerassi, was interested in natural products with biomedical applications. When Hayes told Biemann he wanted to do his doctoral thesis on the organic constituents in meteorites, Biemann was uninterested, to say the least. Forty years later, Hayes can still quote the eminent scientist’s response to his proposal, replete with thick Austrian accent: “Don’t talk to me about zat junk.” Biemann walked away from the discussion without another word, and Hayes was so mortified by his own foolishness that he couldn’t bring himself to tell his wife about the incident. When he went into the lab the next day, he was convinced that his graduate career was over—but Biemann had done some homework and had a change of heart. “It seems we can get lots of money for zat junk!” he exclaimed as soon as he saw Hayes. NASA was, at the time, offering generous funding for such projects. For all his skepticism, Biemann was eventually seduced by the extraterrestrial “junk” and even ended up designing the mass spectrometer for the Viking Mars mission. Hayes remembers him commenting, a couple of years into the meteorite project, that it was actually “much more interesting than the thousandth alkaloid in the thousandth tree,” though Hayes himself says his doctoral thesis was unexceptional, completed before the Murchison meteorite fell and things really got interesting." @default.
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- W3099133092 title "More Molecules, More Mud, and the Isotopic Dimension: Ancient Environments Revealed" @default.
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