chemist

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Even as a chemist, it wasn't until she started working for a large paint company that she realised that paint is often bound with plastic.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

In the early 1920s, inventor and electrical engineer Lee de Forest collaborated with chemist Theodore Case to create the first sound-on-film system, PhonoFilm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

“We thought it would be the same, but it was different,” said Kujak, a 59-year-old chemist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Enck's book traces the history of plastic: from its earliest incarnation in 1909, when Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, through the "myth" of plastic recycling promoted by industry from the mid-20th century onward.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

When World War II began, Gold was a twenty-eight-year-old chemist, living with his parents and younger brother in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin