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Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in…

— Richard Ernst

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an…

— Sydney Brenner

Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his…

— Harold E. Varmus

In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new…

— Michael Smith

The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and…

— Martin Rees

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received…

— John Pople

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals…

— Sydney Brenner

Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.

— Rick Perry

In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set…

— John Cornforth

In view of the experience I had acquired in the field of chemical industry, certain Italian government and industrial bodies entrusted me in 1938…

— Giulio Natta

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are…

— Lennart Nilsson

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

— Richard Ernst