Arthur E. Briggs was a person who did things to help make the world a better place or discover new things. He was really smart and liked to study chemicals and their reactions. He spent a lot of time in the lab mixing things together to see what would happen. Sometimes, what he found out helped doctors make better medicines to help people feel better or help scientists understand how things work in our world. Other times, it just made his friends go "wow, that's cool!"