Comment by jballanc
6 hours ago
If you think Kekule's story is wild, you should read about how Kary Mullis came up with the idea for the polymerase chain reaction!
6 hours ago
If you think Kekule's story is wild, you should read about how Kary Mullis came up with the idea for the polymerase chain reaction!
I already have :) don't forget he also dropped acid in Golden Gate Park and then wrote a Nature paper about time reversal!
He was on drugs. Right?
I assumed opium.
But I think if you are in the throes of a problem, pondering it constantly, day and night—it is in these times that an insight will make its way to your consciousness (drugs or otherwise).
In graduate school he had a reputation for being the best at synthesizing LSD.