Go ahead, laugh. But don't put it past him. This is a man who speaks casually about working with a million volts of electricity. A man who has subjected Teflon to such intense pressure that he's made it shrink. He's too busy pushing chemistry to new extremes to listen to naysayers.
Analytical chemists analyze compounds.
If you ever were handed a beaker full of something in a chemistry lab and told to figure out what it was, you were doing analytical chemistry. It's not as if these researchers are doing something glamorous, such as sequencing the entire human genome. Not so fast. Although biologists sequenced the human genome, analytical chemists developed the technology that performed the sequencing in record time. Jorgenson became interested in chemical separations as a senior at Northern Illinois University.