Cosmic chemistry? It was “love at the first science”

Science is a fairly special subject, but for some, it’s downright romantic. We asked our listeners if they fell in love with someone through the smoked hood or had butterflies on bacterial culture, and they responded with their scientific love stories. You will find below some of our favorite answers-they don’t even warm up the coldest burner Bunsen of your chest.

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A bewnfish fiery love

I met my wife when we were both science teachers in college. … I showed her a demo (fire safety), she did a training race and she accidentally lit the beaker on fire. And because our school did not have a very important budget, the beners were plastic and the beaker melted. She ended up buying me a saving beaker, but we have always kept the melted as a memory. And now we are more than 10 years old married to two children. Yeah, that’s how we met. I love you Kate. Dr Kate!

—Adam, Irvine, CA

Cadous

At the Buffalo School of Medicine, we did everything in alphabetical order. So I met my future husband because we sit side by side in microscope laboratories. We had the same corpse because (our family names both started with W). And now we have four children, two dogs … recently two cats.

—Karen, Buffalo, Ny

Mountaineer magic

My husband climbed on Mount McKinley as a team doctor during the Dartmouth scientific expedition in the 1960s, and I climbed Mount Rainier. After hearing the other for about two years, we were finally presented shortly after my return from the base camp to Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas. Our first conversation focused on high altitude brain edema, which made him find irresistible.

—Marcy, Fresno, CA

Love at first glance

Being blades from one ocean to another and to have encountered a shared genetic anomaly that we both had, and friendship has grown, love has grown, depending on the years and years of years ‘Writing real letters to each other. (We) now married in a romantic relationship.

—Lon

Chat on microscopes

I met my spouse in 1984, during embryology. We had to look under the microscopes and draw images of what we saw, which was embryos. She was very meticulous in her notebook. Mine was a waste because I was not very careful. She laughed at my drawings, began to discuss microscopes (to know). Then, I finally had the courage to ask him to go out, to go take a bite and the rest was in history.

—Dan, Longmeadow, my

Cultivate a connection

I met my husband working in a sustainable agricultural laboratory together. We were therefore always on the ground by digging holes, or in we are covered in irrigation water trying to understand the pressure in citrus fields, and through all of this, we fell in love. Now we are married and we are scientists of sustainability together.

—Zoe, Fort Pierce, Fl

Smoking

I work in the field of orthotics and prostheses. I was in contact with my wife for about 10 years and I decided it was time to ask her to marry me. So I said that I had to train to take an impression of someone with a deformation of their hands and I took this impression of her one night … to get her ring size. And then I went to the jeweler and told them about making a custom ring. … I showed him the model and he was quite alarmed because he never had a plaster version of their wife’s hand brought. … I designed a ring, I printed it, then I forged it in a dental laboratory. … She said yes, and now we have a child of almost two years.

—Brian, Chamblee, Ga

Star -eyed

He studied astrophysics while I studied nursing. And he said one night: “Let’s go a midnight picnic.” I was very excited. I thought of all kinds of romantic notions in my head, and I was looking forward to seeing this evening alone with this young man. We came out where there was this beautiful meadow and the sky was dark, there was no moon. He released a blanket from the car, then proceeded to set up his telescope and told me that if the sun and the earth were an inch from each other, then this star would be distance. … I learned a lot about astronomy that evening.

—Lori, red baton, the

Illustrations by Emma Gometz.

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