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The prototype of the modern chemist. (a) An early school of scientists who sought a formula for the transformation of baser metals into gold-a quest laughed at for centuries but now realized through the modern atom-smasher. (b) The Rosicrucians of the Middle Ages, supposed to possess powers of psychic perception, who sought, the hidden spirit concealed in matter.