11.   Another winner, Amherst College senior Jordan A. Krall, has done research on the AIDS virus and plans to study synthetic chemistry at Oxford.

12.   Soroush, who studied chemistry in Britain and pharmacology and religion in Iran, bases his elaborate arguments on intellectual influences ranging from the medieval to the modern.

13.   According to Zelmati, he was studying chemistry in his final year at school in the reputed La Martiniere college in Lyon.

14.   Butenandt first studied chemistry at Marburg, but soon realised he was interested in chemistry only in its relation to biology, which he therefore also took up.