"Ah... yeah!" Elizabeth says, still wrestling with her phone. "I had this book in my tower on chemistry, I could probably recite that thing backwards and forwards. Once I started my formal training, I realized a lot of it still gelled with a ton of chemical principles and it was like learning a fourth language. I would even say that I improved a lot of the things I've found in my mentor's volumes," she says with a very self-satisfied tone. "Score one for the well-rounded self-education."