Monday, October 08, 2007

Vanity License Plates

 

Karl Mogel at The Inoculated mind is looking for science-related vanity license plates [My new license plate].

Here's one; it's from my fellow biochemistry Professor Peter Lewis. Peter is also Vice-Dean, Research and International Relations in the Faculty of Medicine.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousMonday, October 08, 2007 3:30:00 PM

    I've seen one that reads "PV-NRT"

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  2. Greg LadenMonday, October 08, 2007 9:50:00 PM

    I don't have a picture of it, but Steve Gould used to have "FOSSIL"

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  3. AnonymousTuesday, October 09, 2007 2:11:00 PM

    My friend did a research project in Portland, Oregon, and someone she worked with had the sequence of a common restriction site (I think EcoRI) as license plate. Most people didn't get it: why would you pick a seemingly random set of letters as vanity plate?

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  4. Rosie RedfieldTuesday, October 09, 2007 7:14:00 PM

    No vanity plates, but my spare-tire cover (on the back of a RAV-4) is a BIG Darwin-fish done in reflective tape. Any day now I expect to be rear-ended by a creationist.

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  5. AnonymousThursday, October 11, 2007 12:36:00 AM

    I saw a plate in California with "PHAGE".

    Kornberg claimed that one of his students had a plate that read: "PURIFY" (a reference to Kornberg's Fourth Commandment: "Do no waste clean thinking on dirty enzymes").

    http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/182/13/3613

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