Comment by jballanc
10 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!
10 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.