For me, science took on a whole new dimension at my first GRC, which was on Electron Donor Acceptor Interactions. I felt I was finally a full-fledged member of the scientific community. It really was both a rite of passage and an eye-opener to the power of scientific thought and the scientific community.
- Chris Chidsey
I remember John Partridge reappearing naked after one of Koji Nakanishi's magic tricks at a Natural Products Conference.
- Paul Kropp
The GRC on Polymer Colloids helped to bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, from physics to medicine. This type of interaction helped to improve the mechanism of synthesis method (emulsion polymerization), advance theoretical physics, and also find new applications for polymer colloids.
- D. Sunil Jayasuriya
A perrenial event in the conference on Chemistry at Interfaces was playing cricket with the Europeans and Americans who had never played the game before.
- D Sunil Jayasuriya
The Composites GRC grew out of the Polymers conference and served to focus the early research in the area of structure-property relations in fiber reinforced composite materials. Many of the initial government-funded research projects in composites grew from suggestions made at the GRC.
- John L. Kardos
I remember trying to convince conferees on a boat from Ventura Harbor that the dolphins were actually baby whales.
- Arno F. Spatola