Imagine working on a cure for malaria and accidentally inventing the first synthetic dye, a new color, and kick-starting a whole textile industry, all at the age of 18.
c0nc0rdanceLet's talk about the time that an 18 YEAR OLD invented the COLOR MAUVE (I am not kidding) and completely revolutionized textiles, fashion & eventually cancer diagnosis. The teenager was William Henry Perkin, a bit of a prodigy, who at 15 began studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann at ICL.