chemist

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Godlove, a young chemist the publisher hired in 1931 to help bring scientific rigor to the slippery business of defining colors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

Elahi, the UK's deputy government chemist, who is based at the measurement and testing services company LGC, couldn't believe that food fraudsters would target children.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 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

As is often the way in science, the principle had actually been anticipated three years previously by an amateur chemist in England named John Newlands.

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