He persevered, despite the tar and the yellow.
The joke is that the guy in the meme hates yellow chemistry (yellow compounds) and failed polymerization(I think that’s the specific reaction) reactions which basically makes tar.
And yes, the description in the meme is very accurate.
In before “In a cave! With a box of scraps!”
So we made Fukken tar
YELLOW!!!
Could someone explain?
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.
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)
