Ep22. Chlorogenic acid and end-of-year awards with Dr. Alex Murray and Prof. Carl Brozek

Chris is joined by Dr. Alex Murray to discuss chlorogenic acid. We talk about how plants make it, what it does, what it tastes like, and how we might make it. We discuss a variety of papers, book chapter, and so forth. Check the library link on instagram for some of them.

Then, Alex and Chris spend some time on the year-end awards.

End of year awards: 23:52

Libation prize. 28:57

Spurlock award. 32:35

MTG tool of the year. 36:10

Fruit of the year. 39:49

Beast of the year. 45:03

Then, we shift to discussing movies of 2024 with Prof. Carl Brozek. Did anything released this year compete with Prof. Brozek or Chris' top three movies of all time?

About Dr. Alex Murray: He is from Hull, UK, and received his PhD from Bath. After a brief postdoc at MIT, followed by a professorship at Kent, he joined a startup Boston-based startup, Daqus. They specialize in creating novel battery materials. Chris and Alex lived together during their PhDs. and have been doing annual awards for a long time, but its the first time we put it on record.

About Prof. Carl Brozek: Prof. Brozek leads a materials chemistry research group at the University of Oregon. He is from Chicago, with a PhD at MIT and postdoc at Washington. Chris and Carl collaborate a lot.

Introduction preamble: Airplane 2.