Would I be overstating the facts if I said that papers published in Science magazine meet a higher standard for scientific importance and/or achievement? Probably not. And, as many scientists know, that’s why it is so darn hard to get a paper published in Science. They only accept a few.
It appears, though, that one strategy for becoming one of the lucky few to have “published in Science” is to make sure one of your co-authors has a degree from Reed. Here are two recent samples:
- “Determination of Noncovalent Docking by Infrared Spectroscopy of Cold Gas-Phase Complexes”, Science 10 Feb 2012, vol. 335, p. 694, Etienne Garand, Michael Z. Kamrath, Peter A. Jordan ’03, Arron B. Wolk, Christopher M. Leavitt, Anne B. McCoy, Scott J. Miller, Mark A. Johnson
- “Cytoplasmic Dynein Moves Through Uncoordinated Stepping of the AAA+ Ring Domains”, Science 13 Jan 2012, vol. 335, p. 221, Mark A. DeWitt ’06, Amy Y. Chang, Peter A. Combs, Ahmet Yildiz
Peter was back on the Reed campus to present a Chemistry seminar
on his work, “The Discovery and Study of Peptide-based Catalysts for
Organic Synthesis: Synthetic Methods and IR Spectroscopy”.
Peter as he appears at Yale
and Mark as he appears at Berkeley 