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Opinion
Polyhedra of the past
Today polyhedra speak to chemists of fullerenes and other cage molecules. But they once had a very different meaning, says Philip Ball
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Formulation chemist friction
Derek Lowe wonders where we'd be without the formulation chemists
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Editorial: Event season
Chemistry World staff hard at work attending and reporting on as many events and conferences as humanly possible
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde star in the famous story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Letters: June 2009
I read with great interest the article by Hayley Birch entitled The artificial leaf (Chemistry World, May 2009, p42). It was pleasing to see that the x-ray structure of Photosystem II (PSII) was shown as a key figure in the article. This structure was determined by myself and colleagues ...
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Editorial: Publishing feels the squeeze
The latest sector to feel the recession is the world of publishing and journalism.
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Collaborative compromise
Derek Lowe wonders about pharmaceutical companies' motives for collaboration
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OpinionOstwald's viscometer
One man who took little on trust was Wilhelm Ostwald. Born in Riga, Latvia, he studied chemistry at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia).
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Letters: May 2009
Reading The changing shape of chemistry, 1998 to 2008, I am reminded of what never changes (Chemistry World, April 2009, p39). Nowhere is there any apparent attempt to define the purpose, or purposes, of a chemistry BSc. This is not a demonstration of ’academic freedom’, but, rather, of academic licence. ...