Samuel Gellman, a UW-Madison chemist, considers it one of the scariest — but maybe among the most interesting – experiments he’s ever conducted.
On Sunday, Gellman, a tall and soft-spoken fellow who studies proteins, will attempt to talk with ordinary people about the science that he does for a living. He is the first scientist — the lab rat, so to speak — to participate in an experiment in communication called “Science Cafe.”