About Us

Working with a gas contamination officer and a one-armed first world war veteran, Chris Beedel continues reminiscing about analytical chemistry during 1941.

In 1941 I was a teenager, coming up to seventeen, and I was living in Devizes. My father thought that since I was interested in chemistry, he’d get me a job as a lab assistant. He thought it would give me a practical idea of what it was to be a chemist, as I really had none.