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a wizard who admits the spells are just electrons trading partners.
means A scientist who studies the composition, properties, and reactions of substances — or, in British usage, a pharmacist who dispenses medicines.
from The word descends from "alchemist," itself from Medieval Latin "alchimia," borrowed from Arabic "al-kīmiyā" — "al" being "the," and "kīmiyā" possibly traceable to Greek "khēmeia," the art of transmuting metals. (One charming folk story links it to "Khem," an old name for Egypt, the "black land" of fertile Nile soil — plausible but unproven.) Over time the mystical "al-" fell away, and the gold-dreaming alchemist sobered into the lab-coated chemist.
- first chemist
- Tapputi, a Babylonian perfumer, recorded methods 3,200 years ago
- explosive day job
- Nobel invented dynamite, then funded the Peace Prize
- matchmaking
- reactions are atoms swapping electrons like nervous prom dates
- naming rights
- discover an element, possibly stamp the table forever
- taste ban
- the cardinal sin is licking the experiment
marie curie — polish-born physicist and chemist, only person to win nobel prizes in two scientific fields (physics 1903, chemistry 1911)
dmitri mendeleev — russian chemist who created the periodic table of elements in 1869
linus pauling — american chemist who won nobel prize in chemistry 1954 and nobel peace prize 1962