Chemistry’s not boring, you’re boring

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‘All science is either physics or stamp collecting’. Ernest Rutherford didn’t have, it’s fair to say, a high opinion of chemistry. Famously, the great kiwi was never impressed that he won the Nobel prize in such a lowly discipline. For the man who gave us the proton, those lab benches just weren’t sexy enough.