All Culture and people articles – Page 199

  • Opinion

    Column: Bench monkey

    2008-06-30T11:22:56Z

    Dylan Stiles can light your fire (and put it out again)

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    Opinion

    Erlenmeyer flask

    2008-06-30T11:08:00Z

    George Bernard Shaw once described Britain and America as being 'two countries divided by a common language

  • Review

    Supercharged

    2008-05-28T11:57:47Z

    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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    A material life

    2008-05-28T11:56:32Z

    This is the most unique scientific book I have ever read

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    Fruit of the sun

    2008-05-28T11:50:54Z

    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

    2008-05-28T11:49:45Z

    Although most chemists would agree that, in its essence, chemistry is all about chemical reactions

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    A world full of colour

    2008-05-28T11:48:26Z

    David Lee has travelled the world on botanical expeditions like a latter-day Victorian plant hunter

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    Organic synthesis for the masses

    2008-05-28T11:46:51Z

    Natural products and their conquerors celebrated together

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-05-28T11:29:02Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Careers

    Profile: Born Chemist

    2008-05-28T10:52:14Z

    An early fascination with chemistry grew into a remarkable research career for Katherine Holt. Yfke Hager meets her

  • Opinion

    Column: Bench monkey

    2008-05-28T09:08:26Z

    Dylan Stiles is bedazzled by computational chemistry

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    Opinion

    Drechsel's bottle

    2008-05-28T09:08:00Z

    Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century

  • Review

    In brief

    2008-04-29T14:26:19Z

    Short items

  • Review

    The people's drug

    2008-04-28T13:27:42Z

    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

    2008-04-28T13:26:10Z

    In 1989, David Gutsche's book Calixarenes launched the RSC's Monographs in supramolecular chemistry series

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    Read all about it

    2008-04-28T13:24:50Z

    I have collected anthologies for many years

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    The bases of nature

    2008-04-28T13:10:41Z

    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

    2008-04-28T13:07:40Z

    Nobel prize winners, William Bragg (WHB, 1862-1942) and Lawrence Bragg (WLB, 1890-1971) remain a unique father and son combination

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-04-28T12:55:32Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Column: Bench monkey

    2008-04-28T11:03:51Z

    Dylan Stiles takes a trip down memory lane