Elias James Corey

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.

American Scientist

Stephen LaBerge

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

American Psychologist

Andrew Sean Greer

My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.

American Novelist

Robin Williams

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

American Comedian

Barry Barish

Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.

American Physicist

Christian de Duve

What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.

Belgian Scientist

George Andrew Olah

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Rishi Sunak

From working in my mum's tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future.

British Politician

Gertrude B. Elion

Nobody... took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

A chemist is a professional; the term implies formal education and expertise in chemistry.

Scientific Profession

Chemists often work in labs conducting experiments. They are key in developing new products.

Research Role

Chemists can specialize in different areas like pharmaceuticals, organics, or biochemistry.

Specialized Fields

A chemist in the UK refers to a place that sells medicinal and health-related products.

Healthcare Store

Staff at a chemist's shop often include pharmacists who can give medical advice.

Professional Advice

The term is commonly used by locals in the UK when referring to where they buy medicine.

Everyday Language

 explanation but I think it's fair to say that they still consider the molecules of life to be special I mean evolutions been optimizing them for billions of years right whatever perspective you take it would seem pretty impossible for chemists to come in and build new parts that function within and alongside the natural molecules of life without

The radical possibilities...

 just simple things. The emergence of life changed that. Life brought biosynthetic factories that are powered by sunlight, and inside these factories, small molecules crash into each other and become large carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, multitudes of spectacular creations. Nature is the original organic chemist,

A crash course in...

 you eventually reach the nano-world. Now, nanotechnology may be a term you've heard of. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. My area is the atomic nucleus, which is the tiny dot inside an atom. It's even smaller in scale. This is the domain of quantum mechanics, and physicists and chemists have had a long time

How Quantum Biology...

 She has a chemical reaction that needs to occur more quickly. A chemist has some processes at her disposal that can help her speed up her reaction, and she knows of five ways. And to remember them, she thinks back to her days as a high school student, and the day she got a date for the dance.

How to speed up chemical...

 You know, chemists can can make different sort of chemical reactions based by mixing different chemicals together and they're doing this with a very high intellect. But a Komodo dragon is born with a gland. in its mouth with this substance that we call venom already there

Do Komodo Dragons Eat...

 was a chemist he says wrong you've got the hydrogen so in the wrong place I just put them down like they were in their books said they were wrong so the next day you know after hi so while he might be right so I changed locations and then we found the

How I discovered DNA -...

 and they gave me a piece of paper which said it was a patent, and from that, we had to figure out a way to make this medicine. A hundred chemists in the U.S. at the top universities all swore that little patent could never be turned into a medicine.

Martine Rothblatt: My...

 biology wildlife paleontology um and then the chemistry kind of happened along the way and um yeah for a moment you know i had like um yeah i was i was a little bit torn you know do i want to be a chemist do i want to be a paleontologist that's my

Reimagining Dinosaurs...

 and in her words, distinguish the carpenter from the iron worker, the artist from the mason or the chemist, by a simple inhale. Follow these steps and you too can change the way the world smells to you.

How to master your sense...

 sure John John have a medicinal chemist but not everybody knows these patterns so how do we make sure that nature's wisdom is available to all makers at the moment of creation don't you love this