All History articles – Page 38
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Opinion
Can chemistry get a podium place?
The Olympic site in London has a deep chemical heritage, and it should be built upon
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Opinion
Flashback: 1982 – chemical Olympiads
The RSC suggested the idea of chemical Olympiads to be organised by RSC local sections
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Feature
Turing patterns
Code-cracker Alan Turing’s impact on chemistry is still being realised today, a century after his birth. Philip Ball investigates
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Opinion
Turing’s machine
Alan Turing, perhaps not often remembered as a chemist, provided the starting point for computational chemistry
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Opinion
The Iron Lady
Howard Peters takes a look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, an Oxford chemistry graduate who became the UK’s only female prime minister
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Opinion
Flashback: 2002 – doping discussion
British Olympic skier Alain Baxter had his bronze medal taken away after a post-race drug test showed traces of methamphetamine
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News
Old reactions to help the new
US chemists have delved into the history of organic chemistry to better predict the effect that functional groups will have on one another within a molecule
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Opinion
It's all about presence
I finished last month’s editorial with a question (more about your responses later)
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Opinion
Flashback: 2002 – Puck's potion
Taking up a challenge from the other RSC - the Royal Shakespeare Company
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Podcast
Folic acid
Concerns about folic acid deficiencies, especially in pregnant women, have led to fortification of some grains, flours and bread, but this varies from country to country
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Feature
Glenn Seaborg: plutonium and beyond
Mike Sutton reports on Glenn Seaborg's adventures among the actinides