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chemist

[kem-ist] / ˈkɛm ɪst /


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“Regular people get exposed to those kind of things regularly in their daily life,” said Beizhan Yan, a Columbia environmental chemist and a co-author of the study.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

While many scientists have made significant contributions in the field, three regularly mentioned for the Nobel are Canadian endocrinologist Daniel Drucker, Danish physician Jens Juul Holst and Yugoslav-born American chemist Svetlana Mojsov.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

At the urging of Harvard’s president, James Conant, who was also a distinguished chemist, Merck hired Tishler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

People will be able to go to their local chemist in England this autumn and get on-the-spot treatment for 12 common conditions without going to their GP first.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

For some non-Jews, such as Erwin Schrödinger and nuclear chemist Max Delbrück, the situation was morally untenable.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Chemists have long wondered how that process occurs, and the two Nobel laureates' discoveries have "enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to homochirality", the jury said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Perhaps the most striking is the story of Compound E, an adrenal hormone isolated by the Mayo Clinic biochemist Edward Kendall in 1935 and later synthesized with great difficulty by Tishler and other Merck chemists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Organic chemists routinely study chains of atoms that form the molecular foundations of medicines, advanced materials, agrochemicals, polymers and many other technologies used in everyday life.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Initially, a few hundred chemists will offer treatments for the five new conditions, NHS England says.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

But chemists do not assign a purpose or function to a collision of two gas molecules, nor do they seek an ultimate cause for the collision.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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