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Re: A few questions...
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:53:53 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Matt Hein writes:
> I just told my parents
> the learning values of Lego (I was kind of fictitious on that),
> so they decided for letting me buy more parts.
Not so fictitious. I am an organic chemist, and a large part of
understanding how molecules work is understanding their three-dimensional
structure. When we teach organic we use these plastic models, but I would
say that in some ways I took to these plastic models so quickly because I
spent so much time with Legos (and Tinker Toys and Erector Sets) as a kid.
Here's a picture of a plastic model of a molecule, alongside of a Lego
version that I made:
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~bnh/lab/labchem.html
Here is a friend's compendium of photos of chemists and their models
(including a whole bunch of Nobel laureates, and also me with the Lego model
linked above):
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dt64/2ndTier/OrganicModels.html
Bruce
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| (...) thopse Lego bricks come to great use because their combinations are endless or as I would say (binary). Anyway, I would usually make a "learning excuse" to get my hands on more bricks, and hey! It worked! (...) Well, I'm not really into (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.castle)
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