Donna Nelson
Donna Nelson
Donna J. Nelson is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Nelson specializes in organic chemistry, which she both researches and teaches. Nelson's career has focused on five primary topics of research generally categorized in two areas, Scientific Research and America's Scientific Readiness. Within Scientific Research, Nelson's topics have been:mechanistic patterns in alkene addition reactions andSingle-Walled Carbon Nanotubefunctionalization and analysis. Under America's Scientific Readiness, she focuses onscience education, which includes classroom innovations and correcting organic chemistry textbook inaccuracies,ethnic and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma.
It is entirely possible to present science accurately and have a hit show.
I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.
I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show.