The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.
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My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.
In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart.
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.
I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.
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