[cclark00]

The most jaw dropping but easily missed story I remember from that book:

"That was the case once, when we were all seated around the table in the middle of the lab, having lunch. I glanced up, and noticed that the contents of one flask was turning a little brown. "Who owns that one?" [...they hit the deck as it exploded]

Who eats lunch in a chemistry lab?

[projektfu]

That's how etorphine was discovered! Well, having tea and stirring it with a "clean" glass rod.

[CarVac]

Rocket scientists. The ones who gave rocket science its reputation.

[catalogia]

Hungry foolhardy chemists.