Quotes by George M. Whitesides

About George M. Whitesides:

George M. Whitesides is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology. A prolific author and patent holder who has received many awards, he received the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists in 2011.
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Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

George M. Whitesides

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

George M. Whitesides

The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very sim...

George M. Whitesides

We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

George M. Whitesides

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

George M. Whitesides

Author Bio

  • NameGeorge M. Whitesides
  • DescriptionAmerican chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University
  • BornAugust 3, 1939
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionChemist
  • AwardsPrincess Of Asturias Award - Technical And Scientific Research