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I agree with all the comments made so far. We have tried very hard to dispel the notion that a Scientist is the "bald white guy, in late 50's with horney rimmed glasses, a pocket protector walking the halls of some University mumbling to themselves". The lab coat is one of function just as the computer is. I was recently at the opening of a new Nano-technology Centre and was given a tour of the labs. They consisted of Microscope rooms with nothing more than alien looking contraptions to a fully functioning Biology lab complete with beakers, fume hoods, lab benches and computers. The folks that worked there were in lab coats, in the clean room the researchers wore full body suits. What I try to tell visitors to our facility is that a scientist wears clothing that makes sense to the type of work they do and that each piece of clothing that they wear represents a uniform to do a specific job.
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Ok, so it's one thing to talk about proper procedure, but lab coats
give me a visceral reaction. How long have we tried to get past the
"bald white guy in a lab coat" thing? Shirley's got a strong point,
it depends upon the field.
Beryl
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>Not to get all stereotypical, but we always wear the white lab coats when
>doing chemistry demos. Having a white background makes color changing
>reactions easier to see. Plus it keeps messes off of your own clothes. (Know
>what will remove liquid latex from clothes? Me neither.)
>
>I'm just saying, the classics do sometimes have their uses.
>
>Jonah Cohen
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>Puh-lese no more lab coats. It depends on the field of course but
>unless you're working with radioactivity or it's cold, no grad student I
>know wears a lab coat. If they do, then it's *personalized*, it never
>looks like it just came back from the dry cleaners. If you've never
>been in or worked in a lab before, find out from someone who has, do the
>research. I hate seeing lab-coated scientists on TV looking through
>low-powered compound microscopes talking about the chromosomal
>abnormalities they see.
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>Shirley
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