I know that several chemists I know tend to complain about having to learn atomic quantum mechanics in physical chem, but I'm glad they were forced to know something about that. It's always been sort of a sore point between chemists and physicists that chemists spend all their time working with chemicals, but only physicists seem interested in why elements exist in the first place (this is not necessarily true, but it gives particle physicists something to carp about).
And I do know that biochemistry and organic chemistry are different, but I see the research applications of physical chemistry leaning more toward solid state physics, and the research applications of organic chemistry leaning more toward biotechnology these days. I could be wrong, of course. From outside, you see a lot of things fairly distorted.
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Date: 2005-11-02 02:20 am (UTC)I know that several chemists I know tend to complain about having to learn atomic quantum mechanics in physical chem, but I'm glad they were forced to know something about that. It's always been sort of a sore point between chemists and physicists that chemists spend all their time working with chemicals, but only physicists seem interested in why elements exist in the first place (this is not necessarily true, but it gives particle physicists something to carp about).
And I do know that biochemistry and organic chemistry are different, but I see the research applications of physical chemistry leaning more toward solid state physics, and the research applications of organic chemistry leaning more toward biotechnology these days. I could be wrong, of course. From outside, you see a lot of things fairly distorted.