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Career Connections: Chemist

4 minutes 51 seconds

Now Playing As: Captioned (English) (change)

Meet a chemist who owns his own business that develops synthetic DNA molecules designed to reprogram cells and help cure diseases. Hear the importance of writing, communication skills, and creativity to becoming a successful chemist. Part of the "Career Connections" series.

Media Details

Runtime: 4 minutes 51 seconds

Topic: Careers, Science
Subtopic: Chemistry, Job Skills, Occupations
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
Standards:

Release Year: 2015
Producer/Distributor: Ohio Broadcast Educational Media Commission
Series: Career Connections

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Man wearing a baseball cap and white collared shirt walks towards an open trunk of a truck carrying labeled boxes ready for delivery.

Woman with short hair wearing a suit jacket and pearl necklace looks forward and to the side while speaking.

Closeup of 2 side-by-side black and white sonogram images of the heart.

Two people wearing hard hats walking on a concrete path through an infrastructure of intricate tubing and walkways. Caption: A chemical engineer figures out a way to scale that process up

Woman with long brown hair sits and speaks while people behind her cut hair on mannequin heads in a salon setting.

Middle-aged man with a beard and glasses looks just off camera like he is in an interview.

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A tree lined river with steep banks on one side. Caption: you have groundwater that flows into the river

Closeup on a beehive with worker bees entering and exiting through the opening at the bottom.