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Purpose of the Guide
The purpose of this guide is to provide resources to instructions who are putting together a module for a course endeavors to teach students about how chemical innovation happens by looking at the people and resources behind specific chemical innovations that have happened.
The idea is that by seeing more about how a specific chemist was part of discovering & facilitating an innovation, students can see more clearly how they could be significant participants in future chemical innovations.
It provides instruction and resources for:
- Identifying lesser known chemists involved in significant chemical innovation
- Discovering the paths they followed to get to become innovators in chemistry
- Educational Paths
- How did they get their education?
- Which educational institutions were they a part of?
- Do we know what motivated them or enabled them to pursue that education?
- Research & Collaboration Paths
- What research groups did they join?
- Which research institutions were they part of?
- Who were their mentors?
- Who were their colleagues or collaborators?
- Who were there mentees?
- How do they get involved in those groups or with those people?
- Reporting & Publication Paths
- What types of reporting and publication happened along the way?
- Funding Paths
- How was funding obtained along the way?
- Which people or organizations were involved in the funding?
- Recognition Paths
- How did their work get noticed?
- Did they win awards or have publicity prior to the significant innovation
- Educational Paths
Note: These ideas were iniated and developed by Georgetown Professor of Chemistry, Diana Glick & her Research Assistant Neah Davis, Class of 2025. The librarian, Sharon Clayton, is responsible only for identifying the research strategies and tools.
