All Columns articles – Page 50
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Opinion
Unwelcome festive offerings
It’s not easy to learn you’re going to lose your job, especially at this time of year
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OpinionCosmic Chemistry
Perhaps the island of stability lives among the stars instead of at the bottom of the periodic table
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OpinionPut the chemistry back in medicinal chemistry
Pursuing skewed priorities and easy options has impoverished the pharmaceutical industry, says David Lathbury.
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OpinionFlashback: 1988 – chemistry in Westminster
MPs were entertained with dry ice at the RSC’s first chemistry week exhibition in Westminster
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OpinionRolling boulders uphill
Is Derek Lowe troubled by his failure to develop a compound that has made it to the pharmacy shelf?
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OpinionGone to completion
After a 66-step journey, Paul Docherty ponders the future of total synthesis in his final column
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OpinionA century of isotopes
Once appalled by the military use of his discoveries, Frederick Soddy would pleased by his legacy today, says Mark Peplow
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OpinionNovelty hits top the charts
There’s no formula for citation success, says Philip Ball, but high-impact tracts mix the classical with the unconventional
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OpinionMarcfortines B & C
Paul Docherty ponders a tasty cheeseboard as a source of synthetic inspiration
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Nobel double whammy for chemistry
Is ‘they don’t do “real” chemistry’ the worst argument ever?
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OpinionNatural born chemists
Redesigning nature’s catalysts is tantalising but tricky, says Derek Lowe
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OpinionThe judgement of your peers
A bit of hindsight goes a long way in measuring scientific quality, says Mark Peplow
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OpinionExplosive mixtures
Nobel’s name was made in explosives, but what about the chemistry behind them?
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OpinionFlashback: 1988 – British Biotechnology
The excitement surrounding the Oxford based firm was unfortunately not to last
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Chemistry's climate of scepticism
Philip Ball asks why chemistry seems to have more than its share of global warming’s opponents
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Divided by a common language
American and British English may differ, but data has no borders
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OpinionCrystallography 101
Philip Ball reflects on a century of progress in the science of structure
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OpinionFlashback: 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