chemist

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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

Paul Tchinnis remembers thinking when he started there as a chemist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

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

Reisner added: "As a chemist, you only need one or two good days a year -- and those can come from a failed experiment."

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

No effort, however, was required to see that my laboratory manipulations were less skillful than those of a Swiss chemist.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson