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What Chemists Do Are you an aspiring chemist looking for a career in areas such as formulation chemistry, materials science, chemical safety investigation or green energy? Get some tips from seasoned chemists featured in What Chemists Do and learn about what they do in their day-to-day job! What Chemists Do is a short video series that aim to highlight the works of chemists from various industries and showcase the diversity of careers in the field of chemistry. Visit our video collection at http://bit.ly/WhatChemistsDo For ideas, suggestions and questions, contact us at [email protected]. Like & Share: #WhatChemistsDo "I’m a synthetic chemist, I know how to make materials but I don’t necessarily know what to make... Now the thing I love about what I do is I interact directly with our end-use customers. I work with them to figure out what they need out of the material, and then I go and figure out how to translate that back into the product that we put in the bottle." Phillip Hustad, Senior Research Scientist at Dow Electronic Materials "Everyday is different. Drug discovery is a puzzle and it's just so much fun meeting with my team members, my colleagues working on the puzzle to build the best medicines possible. " Wendy Young, Vice President of Small Molecule Discovery Chemistry at Genentech

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What Chemists Do

Are you an aspiring chemist looking for a career in areas such as formulation

chemistry, materials science, chemical safety investigation or green energy? Get

some tips from seasoned chemists featured in What Chemists Do and learn about

what they do in their day-to-day job!

What Chemists Do is a short video series that aim to highlight the works of

chemists from various industries and showcase the diversity of careers in the field

of chemistry.

Visit our video collection at http://bit.ly/WhatChemistsDo

For ideas, suggestions and questions, contact us at [email protected].

Like & Share: #WhatChemistsDo

"I’m a synthetic chemist, I know how to makematerials but I don’t necessarily know what tomake... Now the thing I love about what I do is I

interact directly with our end-use customers. I workwith them to figure out what they need out of the

material, and then I go and figure out how totranslate that back into the product that we put in

the bottle."

Phillip Hustad, Senior Research Scientist at Dow

Electronic Materials

"Everyday is different. Drug discovery is a puzzleand it's just so much fun meeting with my team

members, my colleagues working on the puzzle tobuild the best medicines possible. "

Wendy Young, Vice President of Small Molecule

Discovery Chemistry at Genentech