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chemist

[kem-ist] / ˈkɛm ɪst /


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“Regular people get exposed to those kind of things regularly in their daily life,” said Beizhan Yan, a Columbia environmental chemist and a co-author of the study.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The firm also pointed to US chemist and biologist David Liu for developing "precision gene editing technologies that directly edit DNA in living systems".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

At the urging of Harvard’s president, James Conant, who was also a distinguished chemist, Merck hired Tishler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

People will be able to go to their local chemist in England this autumn and get on-the-spot treatment for 12 common conditions without going to their GP first.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Alchemy and chemistry were both experimental disciplines, but the alchemist and the chemist had different forms of life and belonged to different types of community.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

"Their discoveries have been decisive for chemists who design reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals," the jury said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Perhaps the most striking is the story of Compound E, an adrenal hormone isolated by the Mayo Clinic biochemist Edward Kendall in 1935 and later synthesized with great difficulty by Tishler and other Merck chemists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Initially, a few hundred chemists will offer treatments for the five new conditions, NHS England says.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Now, chemists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a method for creating nanocrystals from metal nitrides, a technologically important group of materials that had resisted conventional nanocrystal synthesis.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

They succeeded so well that their spurious product responded to the appropriate chemical tests and deceived the government chemists.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson


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