Word: chemists
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...came to the U.S. to study, and then to stay. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...
Although he later earned a Ph.D., Gontarev did not remain a chemist...
...context, this remark sounds critical of his parents, but that is not what Frazier means at all. It is rare in contemporary writing to come across the pure love he expresses for the people who raised him: his chemist father, who worked 37 dutiful years for the same Ohio oil company; his schoolteacher mother, who dreamed when young of becoming an actress and who still appeared in amateur theatricals when Frazier was a boy. He once saw her do Lady Macbeth: "I remember especially her lines about snatching the smiling infant from her breast and bashing its brains...
...vast learning in widely disparate fields. Trained as a chemist in his native Germany, he taught science at the Hebrew University for over five decades. His discourses on Jewish philosophy were renowned. In learned volumes and popular radio programs, Leibovitz established himself as one of his generation's foremost--and most radical--interpreters of Maimonides, that towering figure in the intellectual history of the Jews...
...German chemical firm Bayer paid $1 billion to regain the American rights to its name by buying the North American over-the-counter medicine business of Sterling Winthrop. A Bayer chemist, Felix Hoffman, developed the company's production process for its most famous product, aspirin, in 1893. Bayer lost its American patents and copyrights in 1918, when the U.S. government seized the firm's assets following World...