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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

The gentleman pictured is one Mr. Thomas de Prinse of the Explosions&Fire YouTube channel. He recently finished up a synthesis of dimethyl cubane-1,4-dicarboxylate. While this is impressive feat to accomplish with hardware store chemicals in a shed, it is not novel or groundbreaking enough to warrant a Nobel Prize.

Someone has then created this portrait of him, replicating the style often used in Nobel Prize announcements (see this year's as an example), with a few differences, such as misspelling 'Nobel' as 'Noble', substituting 'Swedish' for 'Swiss', and writing 'This is a work of satire.' down the side.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Right, thank you! Yeah mainly needed help on the YT backstory and the chemistry, the premise of the joke I got, I could have been clearer. Anywho, grade A content my dude(ette)!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Someone has then created this portrait of him

For completeness Olivia Vert made it for the Journal of Immaterial Science (also the Barbenheimer one, and some others but I think they only shared those on Reddit)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Why does it say satire when it's just so true ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Imagine the most stereotypical Australian you can. Now imagine he has a PhD in chemistry but no money for a lab, so does all his work out of a literal tin shed full of spiders using stuff he found at the hardware store