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chemist

[kem-ist] / ˈkɛm ɪst /


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Lawrence, an organometallic chemist, says "chemists are here to solve problems and to try to make your world better."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 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

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

And at least two well-known scientists, the astronomer Ernst Öpik and the chemist and Nobel laureate Harold Urey, had also voiced support for the notion at various times.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson