Department Facts
The queen of the chemistry department. She loves to send emails and will let you come pet dogs in her office every once in a while.
Cindy Knight
Known for his contributions to molecular asymmetry, this French chemist is best known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination and pasteurization.
Louis Pasteur
Liking pumpkin spice lattes or having a pH > 7 is considered to be this.
Basic
How often you are allowed to make chemistry jokes.
Periodically
This state of matter is bypassed in sublimation.
Liquid
Who is the Chair of the Chemistry Department?
She is best known for her discovery of radium and polonium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Marie Curie
The name for this group of elements including fluorine means 'salt-producing.'
Halogens
This is the reason why atoms can't ever be trusted.
They make up everything
When placed in a flame, lithium produces a flame of this color.
Organic chemistry labs are his ruling domain -> he is super chill and will always lend you a spectrum when your purification fails.
Charles "Chuck" Arrington
Ernest Rutherford
Coal and diamonds are made of this abundant element.
Carbon
What should you do with a dead chemist?
A synonym for simple sugars like glucose. This word is very polysyllabic.
Monosaccharide
Many of our faculty like to take their work home with them... What chemistry-based hobby is most common for UVA CHEM faculty?
Brewing Homemade Beer
Robert Boyle
Commonly found in light bulb filaments, this element has the symbol W.
Tungsten
When two carbons go out on a romantic dinner, they are doing this.
Carbon dating
If toluene reacts with nitric acid things get explosive with the compound known by these three letters.
TNT
On average, how many students per year decide to become Chemistry with a Specialization in Physical Chemistry Majors?
Three
He is well known for developing the process for producing the smelly gas NH3 (ammonia).
Fritz Haber
This element was used as makeup by Egyptians to create their iconic eye makeup.
Antimony
This is what you call an acid with an attitude.
A-mean-oh acid
DAILY DOUBLE: What structural property of a molecule led to a boom in the textile industry?
Conjugation; creating new dye colors