The SpectroClick Origin Story Part III : A New View of Serendipity
The day the Vietnam National University of Science – Hanoi students first worked on assembling their rudimentary spectrometers was May 21, 2009. Because of all the chatter in the classroom, I thought they understood the task and were highly involved. Not until two years later did Bùi Anh Thự inform me that, in fact, the […]
The SpectroClick Origin Story Part II: Return to Hanoi
SpectroClick President Alex Scheeline In the fall of 2008, as I was gathering parts and writing software for the rudimentary spectrometer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to take to Vietnam National University of Science – Hanoi for the Chem 420 class, I started working with the EnLIST program. EnLIST sought to assist […]
The SpectroClick Origin Story Part 1 : One Trip Turns into Two
In 2008, I took my first trip to Asia. For decades, I thought my first trip there might be to Japan, where I had some research associates. Instead, I went to Hanoi, Vietnam to teach Chemistry 222, Quantitative Analysis, as part of a collaboration between the Faculty of Chemistry, Vietnam National University of Science – […]
