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Opinion
Letters: February 2010
Source: © BETTMANN/CORBIS C P Snow - author, physicist, diplomat C P Snow, the subject of Mathew Waugh’s ’Last retort’ (Chemistry World, December 2009, p88), knew and greatly admired J Desmond Bernal. Snow’s first novel The Search (1934) included a character modelled on Bernal and tells the ...
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Opinion
Papers vs patents
Derek Lowe wonders whether peer-reviewed papers or patents are more reliable
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Opinion
Editorial: Canadian chemistry
From looking at the cover you'd be excused for thinking we were talking about the atrocious weather
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Opinion
The level of disorder
Dramatised by Alan Lightman, the second law of thermodynamics incorporates the theory of entropy
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Opinion
Letters: January 2010
I do not recognise the picture of dug discovery at the ’coal-face’ painted by Clare Sansom and her sources in the article Molecules made to measure (Chemistry World, November 2009, p50) I worked at Roche UK (Roche Research Centre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts) as a young medicinal chemist in the ...
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Opinion
Scientific Reality Shows
I'm no fan of reality TV. But watching people just going about their business can be fascinating, says Philip Ball
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