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This one goes out to bags for innumerable reasons -- starting with the lyrics....

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...good luck out there!

"Please Bother Us!"

Happy belated 90th birthday to Alfred Bader!

You may have never heard of him. He's one of those American success stories who appear to be waning these days. Not unlike our beloved bagoh20, he started a successful business which grew: Bader co-founded the Aldrich Chemical Company.

Bader's Wiki page lists him as Canadian which I find odd because I associate him with Milwaukee. I first heard of him around 1981 when I saw my first Aldrich Chemical Catalog of Fine Chemicals which graced every chemistry laboratory. You couldn't open a chemistry journal in those days without seeing one of his advertisements which always led with "Please Bother Us!" exhorting his customers to give feedback regarding customer needs.

The Aldrich catalog came out once a year or so and was sort of a Sears Wish Book of what you could buy to supply your experiments. The cover of each new catalog featured a reproduction of an oil painting -- usually a Dutch Masters -- and usually one that Bader had acquired for his collection. More about that here.

Bader, the man, has a rich history: refugee, chemist, businessman, art collector, philanthropist.  Celebrate him.