Stephen Church and Manganese Pentacarbonyl - Periodic Table of Videos

The Professor mourns the loss of his first PhD student - and recalls Steve Church's pioneering research into the molecule Manganese Pentacarbonyl.

More info about Steve Church's work at http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2011/08/remembering-old-friend.html

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[chopperboi89]

Wonderful, touching story, thank you for sharing Professor!

[trick58]

I was at University of California Davis working in the area of gas phase metal carbonyl photochemistry at the same time as Church and Seder and Weitz and I knew the name well. I met Stephen at a meeting where we talked about his time in England and Germany. He was very complimentary of everyone he worked with and knew. He thought of you highly, Dr. Poliakoff. RIP Stephen Church.

[kaetherd]

Thank you Professor!

[8581741]

great video.

[ConnorXV]

Thank you professor, I always make sure to watch your videos regardless of how uninteresting the name might seem sometimes(sorry) I know every time I will be captivated by your stories and explanations on the subject, sorry you had to experience a loss like this.

[judicator1987]

A moving tribute :) RIP Steve

[UKNMajor]

You can see the real emotion of the Professor, it was in a way a nice thing to see i.e. seeing another side of the Professor, real videos like this beat any staged videos on this website by miles.

RIP.

[wrapupinarug]

What a beautiful story, Professor. R.I.P Stephen Church, it sounds like you were fantastic.

[gnamp]

Incredibly gracious.

[TableWolfMusic]

Has anybody else here read the blog in the description? I did. I downloaded the (temporarily free of charge) paper on Manganese Pentacarbonyl. The thing that I found rather awesome is the way they did it by using relatively inert hydrocarbons (a chosen hexane it seems), then flashing it with infra red, analysing it before & after. I dropped chemistry in favour of computing in my youth (gasp who would want to do such a thing?) but it is all still relevant. I'd like a scan of that typed book. Sigh

[GCNatalie]

Thank you Martyn for such a moving tribute to my late brother Steve. And a big thank you also to this community for so many kind words left as comments.

[Magnusjen]

Always hurts when fellow chemists die young :( R.I.P Stephen Church, i will go too the archive tommorow and look up your article