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chemist

[kem-ist] / ˈkɛm ɪst /


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Lavallo is referring to Ronald Breslow, a Columbia University chemist who proposed in 1958 that vitamin B1 could transform into a carbene to enable key biochemical reactions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026

Previous banknotes have pictured other national figures including novelist Charles Dickens, physicist and chemist Michael Faraday, composer Edward Elgar, nurse Florence Nightingale and architect Christopher Wren.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Recently, I visited the labs of Waltz’s adviser, chemical engineer Michael Tsapatsis, and Howard Fairbrother, a chemist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

People usually rely on landmarks instead - like "near the blue gate" or "behind the chemist" and so on.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

He was that kind of kid, absentminded, and very smart, and later in life he became a chemist.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride