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...such juxtaposition occurs, the result is greater than the sum of the parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will liquefy rubber. So he spreads the rubber between layers of cloth and invents the raincoat...
...those free radicals means going deeper into the epidermis than most cosmetics had ever gone. And that means springing for some serious research. "It's the year 2000, and we don't understand the skin," says chemist Daniel Maes of Estee Lauder, whose basic research staff has tripled in the past decade. "But studies in skin technology are now at full speed...
Biologists have spent much of the past century taking cells apart to figure out what makes them tick. Adam Arkin, 33, a physical chemist who divides his time between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, wants to put the pieces back together again. His goal is to create a computer model of how the cell works so that someday he'll be able to design his own cells from scratch...
...state tobacco litigation succeeded beyond anyone's expectations. A whistle-blower, former Brown & Williamson chemist Jeffrey Wigand, turned up with damning testimony and internal documents. In the end, Big Tobacco folded, accepting a settlement that included major restrictions on advertising--no billboards, for example--and $246 billion in damages, to be paid to the states over 25 years...
...boss, the famous chemist Gordon Moore, discovered the secret value of silicon. In 1965, he and his colleagues discovered that little pieces of the element could store and transfer electronic data without emitting energy that would overheat, and ultimately destroy, any computer of practical size...