User:Johnpswan

"Chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames, poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia." - Johann Joachim Becher, Physica subterranea (1667)

My background is in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and polymer science. I currently work for one of North America's largest plastic compounders as a R&D engineer and focus on a variety of projects, such as flame retardant materials.