I apologize for the "off-topic" comment, but I feel I must respond to the recent comments about GE.
GE is headquartered in the United States. We are however, a global company; 43% of our revenues are currently earned outside of the US. The organization at GE that performs fundamental research, GE Global Research, has four major operations headquartered in Niskayuna, NY with 1900 employees. Currently Shanghai, China has about 200 Global Research employees; Bangalore, India about 450; and Munich, Germany has about 100 employees. Detailed descriptions of each site are at
http://www.ge.com/research. Rainer, please view the June, 2004 press release (available from this same Website) announcing the opening of our newest research center at Munich to learn about the major thrust areas for our scientists and engineers working next door to you. You might be surprised!
AMMRL list-server readers will be interested to know that GE has NMR spectrometers located all over the world. In addition to the 5+2+1 research spectrometers at Niskayuna, Bangalore and Shanghai, respectively, there are NMR instruments located at many other GE manufacturing sites. Of course I'm only talking about analytical NMR instrumentation. MR imaging is a topic unto itself!
Back on the thread of the original topic, here at Niskayuna, we support about 100 "self-service" users. Our ideal self-service user would know how to interpret a "normal" 1H and 13C spectrum, but more importantly know to ask us for help when things are not normal. We insist that all self-service users stay "on the beaten path" when it comes to operating the instrument and that they ask before trying something other than normal, routine 1D proton and carbon acquisitions. As self-service users, young Ph.D. hires are sometimes initially disappointed with this policy, but most find that their assigned projects quickly fill any time they thought they might have had to do extra-ordinary NMR experiments. Very quickly they find themselves happy to have the NMR staff help their projects by performing those more complicated tasks.
If you are an NMR spectroscopist at GE, you are grateful for every unique NMR experience you had before you arrived at GE, because you will very quickly be asked to do something that you have never done before or something that no one has ever done before. Depth in several topics and breadth in as many areas as possible are highly desirable for NMR spectroscopists at GE, with a firm footing in both theory and experiment.
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Tom Early
General Electric Global Research
One Research Circle
Building K1, Room 1D23B
Niskayuna, NY 12309
mailto:Thomas.Early_at_crd.ge.com
tele:518-387-6590, fax:518-387-6945
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