I have developed a technique that allows me to turn 2D photos into 3D embossed image. This allowed me to make bronze and silver mantle pieces that feature people (and dogs) that I love.
K. Barry Sharpless: My hero from grad school. I had the honor to work with him in the early 1990s, then again from 1997 to 2004. Barry received the 2001 Chemistry Nobel prize for asymmetric catalysis, and the 2022 Nobel prize for Click Chemistry. The latter is a technique that Sharpless invented and the three of us (Sharpless, M.G. Finn and Hartmuth C. Kolb) pioneered and further developed (in my case for molecular imaging), leading up to the 2001 publication, where we formally introduced this way for obtaining “Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions” (by Hartmuth C. Kolb, M.G. Finn, K. Barry Sharpless, Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 2001).
Emily Prince-Ralby: My amazing niece. I am so proud of her for becoming a medical doctor. The patients are lucky!
Leopold Kolb: Our wonderful, beloved rescue Chihuahua mix who died of old age in August 2022, after spending 12 years with us.
Frau Kolb’s Three Hummingbird Oil Painting in Bronze. This is one of my favorite paintings, so I wanted to have a mantel piece.
