Small World of Science
Topic: Science Workplace
Last week Jenni's parents and my parents met for the first time. We knew that both Jenni's Dad and my Dad were both at McMaster University in Hamilton Canada at roughly the same time. McMaster University had quite an impressive department, which included Bertram N. Brockhouse who won the Nobel prize in 1994 for his development of neutron spectrometer (or slow particle spectrometer). McMaster at the time was a good place to be in Physical Chemistry and Particle Physics as it had a synchrotron.

Back to the story ... Jenni's father, who was in the Physical Chemistry department, was friends with a certain fellow named Kho, who was in the Physics department. It turns out that my father's thesis project was to continue work initiated by the same Kho.

Now I have read that within certain circles, such as the Jazz community the interconnections between the members are tight, but here is an example of how the scientific community is also "connection rich".