Tell me you’re a #chemist without telling me you’re a chemist
#tare #baking #standmixer #bakestodon

I'm not a #chemist , so could someone who knows please explain why #benzene is such a hazard when several hundred tons of the stuff seeps into the ground following a train derailment at 95kph?
#Czechia #Olomouc #HustopečeNadBečvou #chemistry

Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This #lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠
⁠
Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 1/n
⁠
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #chemistry #MastoArt #dye #histsci #chemist #FashionHistory #purple #mauve #colour

For #BlackHistoryMonth pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for women & Black scientists.⁠
⁠
Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 1/n

Happy birthday to Russian #chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 – 1907) who published the periodic table. Born in Siberia, the youngest child of a large family, his father was a school principal until he lost his sight & job. His mother then restarted her family’s abandoned glass factory to support them. His father died & factory was destroyed by fire. Despite economic hardship, 13 year old Mendeleev attended the Gynasium in Tobolsk.

Working on my next print for #printersolstice2425 prompt cobalt. All animals need cobalt for metabolism, even if it’s an ultratrace element in us. We need it as cobalamin aka vitamin B12. So I’m working on another scientist portrait: x-ray crystallographer & chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) who won the Nobel for determining the structure of bio molecules vitamin B12, penicillin & insulin.

For the #printerSolstice2425 prompt oxygen: my #linocut of Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) #chemist, #mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution.

She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, her entry into

#chemist #scienceHumor #filking

I'm humming this one...

Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867 – 1934, Polish-born, naturalized-French #physicist & #chemist at work in her lab. The contents of her lab glassware appropriately glow-in-the-dark!

Marie Curie was the 1st woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to ever win TWO Nobel prizes, and the only person ever to win in two different sciences: #physics & #chemistry! 1/n

#MastoArt
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histsci

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt knighted, chemist Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This #lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠
⁠
Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with 1/
⁠
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #chemistry #dye #histsci #MastoArt #chemist #FashionHistory #histchem #colour

1965

A woman in a lab coat and dress holding two wine glasses amidst laboratory apparatus.
Tags: vintage, chemist, science experiment, laboratory equipment

https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/09-September1965-Page-058.png

Exploring Nickel(II) Catalysts for Fluorinated Ether Formation

Xavi Ribas, University of Girona, explains in an interview how he together with colleagues conducted a mechanistic study that provides valuable insights for the future design of new F-containing bioactive fluorinated aryl-alkyl ethers

https://www.chemistryviews.org/exploring-nickel-ii-catalysts-for-fluorinated-ether-formation/

How does something come from nothing? A #chemist explains;
Don’t fall into the #determinism trap. Everything is, in fact, #random

https://bigthink.com/the-well/how-the-universe-unfolded-from-randomness
#science #physics #universe #chaos

Sustainable Future: The Role of Young Scientists

There are many opportunities for early-career chemists to influence and shape the way we practice chemistry and contribute to a more sustainable future

https://www.chemistryviews.org/sustainable-future-the-role-of-young-scientists/

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠
⁠
Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, "What did Watson and Crick discover?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." While it’s important that …

1/n. #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histstm #sciart⁠

#nhs #pharmacies #pharmacy #chemist #illness #medicines #pharmacyclosures #petition #STOPPHARMACYCLOSURES
PETITION: Save your local pharmacy!
If the government are passing more medical powers to pharmacies, then why are so many closing or under threat?
Please sign and share. When your pharmacy closes, it’ll be too late!
https://chng.it/dp2JXqZXDr

The message every #chemist waits to receive from their sibling.