Pop Rocks candy was created accidentally by chemist William A. Mitchell in 1956 while attempting to devise a formula for an instant carbonated drink, resulting in a candy that pops and fizzes when in contact with saliva.
"Bob Fay was an excellent inorganic chemist, superb at analyzing the variety of ways by which the atoms surrounding a central metal atom in an inorganic molecule move around, rearranging themselves into a different geometry. Bob's work was beautifully reasoned and always reliable."
Adapting Goethe's sturm-und-drang classic The Sorrows of Young Werther into a buoyant, bright Canadian rom-com may sound like a bad idea, but the film ultimately finds charm and chemistry in its leads.
