NileRed

About

Nigel Braun, known professionally as NileRed, is a Canadian YouTuber and chemist known for his chemistry-related videos covering chemical reactions and compounds. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry with a minor in pharmacology from McGill University.

Nigel Braun was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Dorian Braun, a sound engineer and former college professor, and Jody Tanaka. His younger brother, Corey, helps manage the channel. Before starting a YouTube channel, Braun was a trained laboratory technician in an organic chemistry lab. He later began a master’s degree program in chemistry at McGill, but left it to concentrate on the NileRed channel.

Braun had been making videos, mainly tutorials, for fun since his mid-teenage years, then creating a YouTube channel on March 10, 2014. His first video was uploaded on March 24, 2014, and most of his early videos were recordings of his projects as a laboratory technician then at his parents’ garage, with them later being filmed at his industrial-grade laboratory. Braun wanted his channel name, NileRed, to be related to chemistry, but not too chemical-sounding. He and one of his university colleagues…