Denise writes, “I just finished my Ph.D. on microbially-mediated uranium bioremediation and chose to get a new tattoo to commemorate this milestone. The tattoo is a uranium atom with each orbital and all 92 electrons represented. The center is blue with a swirl to represent the ocean where I grew up.”
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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August 21st, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hmm dont electrons reside in probability clouds?
January 20th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
great tatoo i´d do it too
September 27th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Am feelin jealous…