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Some famous people with A-level Chemistry qualifications include actress Emma Watson, comedian Stephen Fry, and physicist Brian Cox.
Marie Curie is a famous scientist from the chemistry branch of science. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (chemistry and physics).
True, many people study chemistry as a field of science that explores the composition, structure, properties, and changes of matter. Chemistry is a fundamental science that plays a crucial role in fields such as medicine, engineering, and environmental science.
"The new chemistry teacher at your school is my friend's cousin?" Some people would say the complete subject to be "Chemistry teacher" or "new chemistry teacher", but it's not. The complete subject is just "teacher". "Chemistry" and "new" are both adjectives.
People have studied chemistry for thousands of years, dating back to ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians and Greeks. However, modern chemistry as a scientific discipline began to take shape in the 17th century with the work of scientists like Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier.
One example of a famous living chemist is Ada Yonath, an Israeli crystallographer who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for her work on the structure of the ribosome.