Donna Blackmond: Solving the origins of life and other mysteries in chemistry
April 2024 | 37 min 34 sec
Donna Blackmond never thought her career would lead to solving how life first formed on the prebiotic Earth. But as she points out in this episode of Science Changing Life, does any scientist start out knowing where their research will take them? Blackmond, who is a professor and the John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Scripps Research, shares how her wide-ranging background across chemistry and chemical engineering is helping answer some of today’s biggest questions in science and medicine.
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Episode topics: Chemistry, origins of life, prebiotic, physical chemistry, organic chemistry, chemical engineering, reactions, women in STEM, kinetics, chirality, drug development
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