Best professor you've ever had and why

anon94785555
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:50:06 +0000

Mine was my freshman Honors Chemistry 115-116 professor (they still have the course today- updated of course and different profs) at UW-Madison back in the early 1970’s. He was a good lecturer and covered far more than the minimum. Exams were blue book and challenging- perhaps one person got a very high score and the next group would get close to 70% scores (had to show work as well). He taught me that there was so much more to learn than just what was expected to get an A in a course as well. We also had to read a then current book and write a one page paper on it each semester- Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and The Double Helix about Watson and Crick. Who knew that was part of a chemistry course! His office was interesting and messy - it included all sorts of stuff from grad students from around the world. His wife became my senior honors thesis advisor- she was a chemist who became a pharmacologist in the medical school. It was the Vietnam War era, Civil Rights movement and Women’s Liberation era, a very different time than now. He was obviously a good fit for the liberal campus and not sexist.