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A chemist is a scientist who researches chemical substances, performs experiments with the properties of chemical substances, measures the effects of chemical compounds in various situations, and studies inter-chemical reactions.

Chemists typically specialize in biochemistry, neurochemistry, nuclear chemistry or theoretical chemistry. In the pharmaceutical industry chemists develop drugs and study their properties in order to determine the quality and stability of medicines. Some chemists even work in forensic science to establish evidence in criminal investigations.

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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.