Science-majors thread.

[NealIRC]

Wow I been so turned on by this image. They made Professor Oak a chemist (than say, a biologist). Which inspired me to make this thread.

On bottom page, there are organic chemistry compounds. And on a nearby book he has on the table, are phase diagrams. Which are taught in PChem 1. He also has microscopes which are never used in chemistry labs, mainly used in biology labs.

So, several discussions.

1. Your major?

2. Your science careers? What kind of labs do you worked in, what kind of instruments does it have, what kind of chemicals does it have?

3. Where you live at, any science-related tools at your home? (This is gonna be mostly for electronics-gurus).

4. If you had your own lab, what kind of instruments/chemicals would you have?

And if you could change the above image, for the books, what kind of examples would you put, besides organic compounds and phase diagrams?

I'm chemistry major and CS minor, and I'm always wondering what goes on in lab in other majors like chemical engineering or pharmacology.

Careeer-wise I worked at a metal-plating company, an asphalt lab company, and an electronics company for cement-related instruments. The asphalt lab had lots of toluene and acetone for cleaning. I also worked for a company where we had a instrument that measured the % of O2 and CO2 in the air, it was worth $5,000.

In my home, I have an instrument that measures the % of sugar in liquids, which I got from 1 of my previous jobs. I know a lot of electronics guys can have a digital multimeter at home.

If I had my own lab, see I only know chemical labs the most, but I feel like I wanna add stuff that other majors have. Biology labs likely have instruments for drug-testing. Called Eliza? Besides bleach and hydrogen peroxide, I'd like to make it a microbiological lab and have stuff that kills viruses and bacteria. I'd have instruments like GC, UV-vis, NMR, etc. I'd have tools like pipettes and syringes.

 

[Isaac the Investigator]

I'm a physics major, although I am also starting to work on a minor in geology. I've worked on a computer simulation of folding proteins, collected data of brown dwarfs in a star cluster, and used drones to collect data about the surface of an abandoned farming field so far, all in summer research programs. There's not really much for me in Pennsylvania, which hasn't really invested in the high-tech sector so I'll probably have to move south or west at some point. My ideal lab would probably be filled with things like particle accelerators, quantum computers, telescopes, nuclear reactors, spectrometers, etc.