A lot of the things we associate with semiconductors is actually chemistry, i.e. photoreactive resists, proper surface deposition of various layers of metals.<p>Also usually referred to as a joke, but &quot;Plastics.&quot; How many things around you are absolutely dependent on fairly advanced plastics? How about all those polymers, the nylons, the kevlars, the polyesters?<p>And molecular biology itself is the study of chemistry.<p>Chemistry gets overlooked because it&#x27;s the backbone, the support for all of these fields, like the doting mother who lets her children go forward and take the spotlight, but without whom nothing would be possible.