Age Quote by Geoffrey Wilkinson

My mom was a chemistry teacher.

— Shriya Saran

My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that…

— Wallace Carothers

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed…

— Leon M. Lederman

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find.…

— Richard J. Roberts

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

— Yusuf Hamied

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

— John Vane

Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

— Joshua Lederberg

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

— Bill Foster

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

— Jack W. Szostak

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

— John Cornforth