All History articles – Page 34
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – counterfeit coinage
XRF spectrometry helped to sort real money from fool’s gold
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FeatureThe enduring controversy of the Turin Shroud
Far from putting the debate to rest, the dating of the Turin Shroud merely fuelled the controversy, as Richard Corfield discovers
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FeatureOrdering the elements
From the law of octaves to the periodic table as we know it, Mike Sutton traces how chemists put their house in order
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OpinionFlashback: 2004 – new lab for Oxford
Researchers moved into Oxford University’s new Chemistry Research Laboratory
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FeatureCrystal clear
With the international year of crystallography upon us, Clare Sansom celebrates this important discipline
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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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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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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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FeaturePaving the way to polythene
It is 50 years since Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta won the Nobel prize for their work on polymers
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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
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