Ida Emilie Steinmark talks to a chemist who gave up a career as a footballer
Chemistry doesn’t have to be your first choice to become the right choice: that’s the lesson that Charles West learned when he decided to give up his boyhood dream of professional football to do a chemistry degree.
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