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Tag: Scylla and Charybdis

Zhongguancun, China’s “Silicon Valley”

I have had a grad student sharing the apartment with me. Zhou Jing Lun, or Jinglun, for short, is a grad student in polymer chemistry. Our respective fields within chemistry are pretty remote, so we have little scientific background in common.
Jinglun perked up when I told him that Paul Flory was my statistical mechanics [...]