The GRC format doesn't work everywhere. At a meeting in the Riviera in 1975, it became evident that you can't have a scientific session after a French dinner - so one was held in the late afternoon.
- Cheves Walling
The Electrochemistry conferences in the early years (1965-1975) were important because the field was undergoing a renaissance and the younger electrochemists needed a forum.
- Allen Bard
I remember Lars Onsager sleeping throughout a lecture, yet still asking the most informative question at the end.
- David Chandler
The first high resolution X-ray structures of membrane-bound proteins were presented at the Bioenergetics Gordon Conference, which was important in stimulating research in the area. It was able to focus the science on electron and proton transport systems which enabled many important breakthroughs in this area.
- Gary Cecchini
People tell me that Ledoux and I engaged in a tug of war over the microphone while arguing about the meaning of his experiments! (I believe this story, although I don't recall the physical struggle.)
- Mary-Dell Chilton
The Mechanisms of Toxicity GRC was the actual breeding ground for the development of the Society of Toxicology, now one of the most successful scientific societies in the United States and recognized as the home for excellence in toxicological research and expertise.
- Richard Hines