All articles by Chemistry World – Page 17
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Opinion
Flashback: 1988 – British Biotechnology
The excitement surrounding the Oxford based firm was unfortunately not to last
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Opinion
Flashback: 1983 – a new award from the RSC
The Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship was launched to encourage research in organometallic chemistry or coordination chemistry of transition metals
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Flashback: 1983 – Cookson Group celebrate golden anniversary
Cookson Group celebrate 50 years at Perivale site
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Flashback: 1993 – forensic advice
After a suggestion from the RSC a royal commission proposed a Forensic Science Advisory Council
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Flashback: 1988 – chemical weapon collaboration
Russian and British teams discuss chemical warfare as a step towards a ban
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Flashback: 1993 – problems at Pittcon
Snow storms stranded people at Pittcon in 1993, making the conference memorable for the wrong reasons
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20 years ago: The rising tide
Committee of Women in Science and Technology is set up by the Office of Science and Technology
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25 years ago: Roald Hoffmann publishes his poetry
The Nobel prize winner shows his artistic side
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30 years ago: The oldest operational PerkinElmer spectrophotometer in the UK is found
Firm celebrates silver jubilee with competition
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Opinion
The art of thinking
Students are too busy to think and academics won't sit still. There may be trouble ahead.
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Podcast
January 2013
January Chemistry World Podcast - January 2013 1:05- The anti-ageing properties of olive oil can even be extended to buildings 4:00- Potatoes have been bred with lower levels of acrylamides 7:25- David MacMillan tells us how Princeton's new chemistry building is catalyzing new interactions and discoveries 15:40- DNA ...
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Opinion
30 Years ago: Endowment for Spinks Symposia
ICI creates £10,000 trust fund for a biennial symposium in honour of Alfred Spinks
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Opinion
Hard day's night
Chemists' working habits seem to have little regard for office hours. Should we resist the trend toward working longer?
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Podcast
December 2012
December Chemistry World Podcast - December 2012 1:15- The latest findings from the Mars Curiosity Rover's chemistry instruments 4:20- The mechanism behind argyria - 'blue man syndrome' - has been discovered 7:28- Tamara Galloway discusses bis-phenol A 13:38- Making sure 'good bacteria' can get to where it will ...
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Podcast
November 2012
November Chemistry World Podcast - November 2012 1:25- How many molecules are in the smallest possible ice-cube? 4:18- Buildings that sweat may be able to cool themselves without air-conditioning 7:25- 2012 chemistry Nobel laureate Robert Lefkowtiz tells us about the G-protein-coupled receptor 15:38- Water-soluble silicon circuits could be ...