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Living Well Through Chemistry; Innovate To Succeed: Fenn does esoteric research to build a better tomorrow.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: MARILYN ALVA
John Fenn gets bored quickly if tasks aren't challenging enough.
Even decades ago as a child, he found the experiments in the chemistry set his parents gave him one Christmas "very dull."
He preferred poring over the science sections of the "Book of Knowledge" and reading his father's Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines. Like his father, he liked to solve mechanical problems.
Only when a freshman college professor made chemistry come to life did the young Fenn decide to major in the subject.
But boredom continued to plague him. At graduate school at Yale, he couldn't get excited about the research. It was all about measuring coefficients of hydrochloric acid and methanol water mixtures, using thousands of data points and squares.
"It was dull as dishwater. I didn't give a hoot about doing that kind of research," Fenn said in a recent interview. "In industry, things were much more interesting."
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