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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2010
- We discuss the chemist and acclaimed writer Primo Levi.
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I am Italian and I live in Italy, shamefully I didn't know Primo Levi was a chemist, I'd like to thank you very much for your videos and your sincere passion for chemstry :)!
Im 15, I go to a decent school and I have to say this channel is one of the reasons chemistry is my favorite subject :D thanks man
Primo Levi's book If This is a Man is one of my favorite of all time, despite its depressing subject manner, he was a Pynchon-esque wordsmith
I highly recommend it
You should also mention Levi's book "Survival at Auschwitz." More than anything else I've seen or read it reveals the experience of daily life in that evil place.
"there's a wonderful smell of chemicals in here"
I like this guy
HOLY MOLY the Professor was in my hometown and nobody told me anything?!? Bummer!
thanks from Italy
The german name for this new rubber like compound is called buna. The US counter part is nitrile. Chemically the same and still used in your modern tire.
Thank you for sharing your visit with us. Very interesting & exciting.
Must smell must be like my old high school chem lab. They built a new school but the old one had crappy ventilation which kept the chemical smell in. I think it stays bc the vapors stick to the walls and just everything I don't think you will ever get ride of it. Those smells are special you don't get any where else that I know of :)
For the past months Ive been watching periodic table of videos, I got very interested in chemistry and in all areound it. Thank you
I bought this book the other day. Thanks for this video, very interesting! The periodic videos are getting me through a summer without studying!
Monday will finaly be my first day studying chemistry at university, can't wait! Been looking forward to it for the past months.
Thanks for another great video. I've spent a lot of time in chemical plants and refineries working, so I've had many opportunities to "enjoy" the smell of chemicals off-gassing, more than I would prefer.
!!Hey guys, typo in the title!!
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Ciao dall'Italia! ;)
Chemistry was always my worst subject as an undergrad. I couldn't memorize all those mechanisms in organic chemistry. To this day, I don't understand what physical chemistry was all about. But your videos (and this one in particular) have invited me back into the chem lab.
Reminds me when I first entered the chemistry storeroom in primary school (out of bound to students, how I got in... secret :P). I think I felt the same way. The lovely smell! Lol!
This was great. Nice to know the 'everyman' scientists are given due credit for their passion as well as those who made landmark discoveries. Thank you! :)
Thanks guys! Still busy with the introductions. Already had a small tour of the labs and i felt right at home! There's something about the smell of a chemistry lab indeed. Thursday and friday will include some more tours of the labs, safety training and the handing out of out lab coats. Next monday will be the start of all the lectures and experiments. Will be in the labs doing practical work from 9 till 5 on a thrusday and friday(oh yes)
primo levi is featured on this weeks (may 24 2013) great lives on radio 4
Thanks for this video from an Italian American!
I would really enjoy more videos like this :)
Just read the book: wonderful
very good video. thanks for uploading.
@gundrag000 - Most of the videos have captions. This one does not have them yet, but they will come soon.
I'm sad to say the sound level seems a tad low on the last couple videos.... oh, and you all make me want to go on a field trip. =]
Professor made me cry, hell science is worth it
love this channel
Is it to do with the bottom period where the elements with Rutherfordium (Rf), Dubnium (Db) being mixed up
Can you ask the professor to tell us more stories like this, Brady?
Thanks for this video!!!
p.s.
I'm going to buy the book!
Wonderful insight. :)
@TTerboLasers There are several kind of chemists. You could for example go for biochemistry, about the chemical processes inside living beings such as fotosynthesis, or petrochemistry, which is all about crude oil, diesel and gasoline, and probably about plastics too, but maybe there is a seperate kind of chemist for that.
Chemistry sure is very interesting to learn about.
@MyOverflow done and done. send the links! i cant wait!!
Thank you for another masterpiece ;)
I like Chemistry, I find it the easiest subject, but what I love is the combination between Physics, Biology and Chemistry and even Mathematics in some cases, like what you find in the Human body.
Thanks for this video from an italian material scientist
u_u,
I'm stuck in culinary school... seeing this just makes me miss chem class even more.
I wish I'd gone to Millersville University first.
except for the extroverts.. who wore coloured ones
I wonder if the chemists experienced "flavor transfer" while baking cakes in environmental chambers typically used for drying chemical samples. ;-)
Another italian student here! :D
very inspiring :)
@iorixs Nice troll. What do you feed it to get that extra spicy stench?
Remarkable story.
I agree with gundrag000, the videos are too quiet. Please try doing soundtrack normalization before posting. That's be very helpful not to adjust speakers for this channel only.
very nice
when i was in school, no subject fascinated me more, or was as easy for me (perhaps besides certain advanced mathematics) as chemistry. i was good at it. unfortunately for me, i was in an orphanage, and they felt that my education wasn't as important, and made me leave school, and put me in job corps. biggest disappointment i ever experienced. to this day i wish i could have had more chance to study chemistry. I'm good with computers; but i wish i had a chance just once, to study chemistry.
another italian student here : )
@FraggedMind
and history
Primo for the win.
nice video
Has Primo Levi got anything to do with the jeans?
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Now I really want a Backed Cake that smells of chemicals. And I am really happy I can get it at any SuperMarket!
richey edwards mentioned p.l...so im here
will someone please invent the smellervision!
@allochthomas Hope you had a great day :D
@525047 That would really depend on what you can smell.
4:02 - Primo Levi looks like Tony Stark :D
I'm sorry if I'm in a chem lab and smell something different I'm getting the heck out of there.
Chemistry saved his life.
Slight mistake in the title. =)
I thought the video was going to be about expensive jeans
@carlsontechnology
Levi's rubber: the real reason the allies won world war 2.
coming soon to a bookstore near you.
The rogue in me wants to believe that Levi pulled a fast one on the Nazis and made inferior rubber.
awesome touching vid, thanks professor. by the way 4 fools didnt undertstand the video, go read some books
i'm hungry for cakes right now
LOL the smell is wonderful
1:10 "Quite an incompentent band" I hope you were talking about the Germans and not the Italian Partisans...
3 people missed the "Like" button. They fail at science and technology.
"somehow" the smell would survive ...
good luck.
Nice smell of chemicals?
I think that exam he had to take, given by the nazis, would be so much worse than any other finals ever given lol
I don't see the irony. Are you sure you know what irony means?