Tim Smith

@chemsmith.bsky.social

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Chemist making/purifying stable-isotope compounds at MilliporeSigma. Dad, husband, slow endurance athlete. I like being with my wife and daughter, working out, traveling, hiking, broadway shows, rock n roll, tolerant joyful smart people.

Grease tube
My cat’s white paw with red and blue caps.
News that UC Berkeley is top school in US and in top 3 in chemistry.
HPLC PDA signal showing signals for compounds.
My HPLC sample vial.
Capybara NMR tube holder. With top hat and monocle.
Hydrogenation with balloon of H2.
Copy of a paragraph from Dragon’s Egg by Robert L Forward (1980).
Me in my biking clothes with a beer.
Bottle of NH4OH.
Label on bottle of HCl with a notice that it contains…HCl.
Advert for the Great Smokies synchronous firefly lottery.
Large and small desiccators with gaskets between base and lid.
A white trillium flower.
Harold Urey, a deuterium atom, Willie Nelson, and me holding a beer.
Just me in my bike shirt, having a beer. 🍺 🙃
Turtle snapping at me. Ohio.
Dull rubber adapters.
Me at a No Kings rally
My Welch vacuum pump
Rotovap indicating bath temp at 10 degrees when set at 45, because I had forgotten to start the heating.
Magnetic plastic bits portraying Einstein, Erlenmeyers (including one with our cat Max Jr), a round bottom flask, and me in a lab coat.
A cold finger
Me wearing my green hoodie in the lab. It has a cartoon atom on it. I forgot what day it was so that was lucky.
Young woman. 80’s look.
Two pictures of a young woman, in one she’s looking seductive, wearing leather and smoking. Also a black and white picture of a young man’s face.
Me, wearing my MARCH FOR SCIENCE hat.
NMR program showing spin at 0 Hz.
Newly cleaned hood bench surface.
My cat Max Jr chowing down on dinner.
Rotovaping an orange mixture that appears to be the consistency of pumpkin pie filling.
400 mL beaker marked only to 325 mL.
TLC plate showing fractions from a column.
Light pillars from street lights.
Scenes from the races.
Boring night sky
The Nobel peace prize medal.
First part of a post sent by former student stating that I had helped her.
My cat Max Jr attacking a bird toy.
Little chirpy birds flying from the bush into a nearby tree.
Neighbor’s bush, about 4 meters high, with a lot of chirping birds inside.
Scene from “Invaders from Mars” movie (1953) showing white dude in lab coat mixing colorful chemicals.
My tuxedo cat Max Jr
Horrible chemical structure seen at the entrance to the science part of a museum.
Shows as an ingredient “hydrogen gas infused purified water.”
Little black jumping spider crawling on my finger.
Our cat Max Jr lying on a carpet in a sunny spot.
Just me, pausing during a run in the snow.
My “Chemistree” t-shirt.
Rxn showing Glu-HCl + MeOH giving only the ester on the side chain.
Me with my little medal
Max Jr, my cat.
Video of white solid produced from yellow oil under vacuum.
Just a TLC plate
Max Jr, my cat
Just me at the end of my race.
Biking on a bike path with lots of fallen leaves.
Rxn of phenylalanine from phenylpyruvate using phenylalanine dehydrogenase.
Me in my S P O O K Y elements shirt.