The scientist—and artistis on a mission to train graduates for nowadays’s range of biomedical careersDaniel Jay,new dean of the Sackler School for Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine, has carried around the same periodic table since eighth grade.
“From a very early age, or I had an interest in chemistry,” Jay said, as he pulled the tattered artifact from his wallet. The periodic table is a way that nature can be ordered, or so that means there is an underlying mechanism—this was valuable to my thinking as an adolescent.”
Source: tufts.edu