When Hermann Boerhaave,a Dutch physician and chemistbest known for his Elementa chemae,died in 1738,he left behinda sealed book with the title The Onliest and Deepest Secrets ofthe Medical Arts.
Being a chemist, I began working with my students to develop ways on performing chemistry directly on an individual DNA base, to truly fix, rather than disrupt, the mutations that cause genetic diseases.
In 1856, 18-year old English chemist William Henry Perkin accidentally created a synthetic purple compound while attempting to synthesize quinine an anti-malaria drug.
1856 年,英国一位 18 岁的家 William Henry Perkin 在合成奎宁和抗疟疾药时,意外制造出一种紫色复合。