{"id":1048591,"date":"2012-04-29T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T15:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/chemistry\/zip-it.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:57:08","slug":"zip-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/chemistry\/zip-it.php","title":{"rendered":"Zip it!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Zippy\"

The zipper metaphor - what were we telling the kids with this guy? Readers outside the UK might need some explanation: http:\/\/bit.ly\/Juiv9o<\/a> <\/p><\/div>

As anyone who’s used Google today will already know, it’s the birthday of Gideon Sundback (1880–1954), the Swedish engineer who brought the zipper to the world. Sundback’s invention has obviously had a profound and lasting impact on the clothing industry, but its influence extends far beyond that. Notably (for us at least…) the humble zipper has become an indispensible metaphor in chemistry.<\/span><\/p>

Pumping ‘zipper’ into the RSC publishing platform<\/a>, for example, returns 458 hits. We’ve got metal-organic nanotube zippers<\/a>, trigonal tryptophane zippers<\/a>, leucine zippers<\/a>… the list goes on. And it turns out we aren’t afraid to reach for the zipper metaphor<\/a> here at Chemistry World<\/em> either.<\/p>

Which begs the question: how would such work have been described if the zipper had not been invented? And more interestingly how might actual research have been different? The relationship between language – full of weird and wonderful cognitive scaffolding such as our beloved zipper metaphor – and science is complicated. But we know it isn’t a one way street: to some extent language informs creative thought – which means chemistry owes a debt to Sundback and his zipper.<\/p>

Andrew Turley<\/em><\/p>

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