"Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?" It's a memoir by chemist and businessman Max Gergel, full of hilarious and hair-raising anec

"Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?" It's a memoir by chemist and businessman Max Gergel, full of hilarious and hair-raising anecdotes about how a scrappy small American business could operate before the EPA and OSHA existed. It's also powerful if anecdotal evidence for why the EPA and OSHA were ultimately necessary. Excerpt, brief review, and link to PDF of the full book here on Derek Lowe's excellent blog In the Pipeline: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/05/27/max_gergels_memoirs https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/05/27/ma...