All Culture and people articles – Page 199
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OpinionErlenmeyer flask
George Bernard Shaw once described Britain and America as being 'two countries divided by a common language
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Review
Supercharged
In a long and illustrious career, Nobel Laureate George Olah, director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, US, has made many seminal contributions to chemistry
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Fruit of the sun
Pierre Laszlo taught chemistry at Princeton and Cornell in the US, the University of Liege, Belgium, and the Ecole Polytechnique, near Paris
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Much ado about nothing
Although most chemists would agree that, in its essence, chemistry is all about chemical reactions
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A world full of colour
David Lee has travelled the world on botanical expeditions like a latter-day Victorian plant hunter
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Careers
Profile: Born Chemist
An early fascination with chemistry grew into a remarkable research career for Katherine Holt. Yfke Hager meets her
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OpinionDrechsel's bottle
Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century
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The people's drug
This book examines the evolution of aspirin as a compound and as a drug, used for the treatment of pain
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The baskets are back
In 1989, David Gutsche's book Calixarenes launched the RSC's Monographs in supramolecular chemistry series
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The bases of nature
Alkaloid research has played a significant role in the development of organic chemistry throughout its history
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A lot to Bragg about
Nobel prize winners, William Bragg (WHB, 1862-1942) and Lawrence Bragg (WLB, 1890-1971) remain a unique father and son combination