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Originally Posted by Xplo
People who are familiar with it IRL are going to want to use it for making bombs, fire accelerants, acids, and poisons (oh, SO many poisons), performing diagnostic laboratory medicine, analyzing strange materials and forensic evidence, possibly even creating weird weapons or other devices that utilize exotic states of matter (though this borders Physics), and pretty much any other thing you can imagine having to do with studying or building materials or substances. And they probably should be able to do all of these things, but without appropriate equipment or skills specializing in those tasks they ought to be at huge penalties. A cinematic chemistry whiz (skill 25+) might be able to do almost anything with chemistry that the script can handwave an explanation for, but your typical Master or PhD chemist (skill 15-18-ish) probably won't...
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I don't believe that a typical PhD is anywhere near skill 18. In general, skill 12 is enough to get a job, and skill 16 makes you highly respected in your profession; for example, the editor of a frequently cited journal might well have Chemistry-16. A PhD is probably around Chemistry-13. For skill 18 you want someone like Lavoisier or Gibbs or Curie.
Bill Stoddard