Somerville and Borys were happy to share first authorship. ‘And, more importantly, we had tons of fun!’ ‘Independently, our papers would have been weaker,’ agrees Campos. This generosity paid off – the different points of view contributed to a broader vision of the relevance of the discoveries and helped them reach a wider audience. ‘We established a fully transparent environment, everybody had access to all the data, drafts and discoveries,’ adds Hevia. It was like painting the same picture, but each using our own strokes and techniques ‘We soon realised our unpublished results were indeed very similar, yet complementary.’ After checking everybody was on board, collaboration commenced. ‘The conversations were super polite and transparent,’ explains Hevia. Perhaps surprisingly – they’re both organometallic chemists from Spain – Campos and Hevia had never worked together. ‘We agreed, together with Rosie and Marina, to contact Eva to congratulate them on the paper and catch up, to avoid further overlaps. ‘Our structures were identical,’ explains Campos. Soon after, they reported their first set of results in Angewandte Chemie. ‘We were intrigued by the same nickel compound, published originally in 1979,’ he says. ‘Because our group specialises in the structure and reactivity of unconventional species, we decided to explore further.’ At the same time, Andryj Borys, a postdoc in the group of Eva Hevia at the University of Bern, Switzerland, was synthesising similar species on the Schlenk line.
‘In the 1970s, researchers had reported what seemed an elusive hexagonal-planar nickel complex,’ says Campos. At the time, they were working as a postdoc and a PhD student, respectively, at the Institute for Chemical Research in Seville, Spain, under the supervision of Jesús Campos. What if someone scoops the discovery?įor Somerville and Pérez-Jiménez, being scooped sparked collaboration. But sometimes the science hall of fame works on a first-come, first-served basis.
The latest recipients of the Nobel prize for chemistry, Benjamin List and Dave MacMillan, independently developed organocatalysis. Very often, researchers across the world work on similar developments without knowing about each other’s results. After months of arduous work on different organometallic complexes, some of them had just been published. A few minutes later, the lab WhatsApp group was on fire. Make sure it is undamaged and is in perfect working order.Before starting their weekend, Rosie Somerville and Marina Pérez-Jiménez decided to quickly check the latest literature. If you use second-hand equipment or equipment that you used with an older child, it must meet current safety standards. Preparing formula feed Something to keep them cleanīaby bath towels are useful but not essential, small bath towels are just as good. If you are formula feeding, you will need: It may be worthwhile investing in a breast pump. If you are breastfeeding, you will need very little equipment.Īs your baby grows, you may want to express milk when you are going to be away. Bring antibacterial hand wash with you if you're out and about with your baby.
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