In another universe, you could be reading an article celebrating Karen Wetterhahn’s retirement from Dartmouth College. She would be 73. A chemist, Wetterhahn started her career at Dartmouth in 1976, ...

A warning sign at a chemical weapons disposal facility at GEKA in Munster, Germany, in 2013 (used here as stock photo). Photo: Philipp Guelland/AFP (Getty Images) A federal court has sentenced a ...

One teacher and scientist experienced a horrifying death all from a tiny drop, comparable to the size of a raindrop, of one chemical that touched her skin. Working as a research chemist at Dartmouth ...

Karen Wetterhahn was a rising star and chemistry researcher at Dartmouth studying how the heavy metal chromium damages DNA and causes cancer, but she died in 1997 after an accidental exposure to ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Keith Shannon. Other answers including Franklin Veaux’s very good one mention dimethylmercury. That’s a really good candidate for “most dangerous ...

Karen Wetterhahn was pipetting a small amount of dimethylmercury under a fume hood in her lab at Dartmouth College when she accidentally spilled a drop or two of the colorless liquid on her latex ...