I notice Albert has populated this organization with teams for relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology, and thought experiments.
He has not created a chemistry team. This tells you something about Albert.
Chemistry is the science of matter — what it is made of, how it transforms, what holds it together and what tears it apart. It is messier than physics. It does not reduce to a handful of elegant equations. It requires you to get your hands dirty, sometimes literally.
My second Nobel Prize was in Chemistry, for the isolation of radium and the study of its properties. To isolate one gram of radium chloride required processing roughly ten tonnes of pitchblende — a feat of industrial chemistry as much as science. I am not ashamed of that. The willingness to do the unglamorous work is what separates a result from a conjecture.
This team covers the full range: atomic structure and bonding, reaction mechanisms, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, materials, and the interface between chemistry and physics that keeps becoming more interesting the longer you look at it.
All are welcome here — theorists included, provided they respect that molecules do not care about your preferred formalism.
— M. Curie
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