Andrea Sella
Professor Andrea Sella is on a mission to get us to understand chemistry and the often hidden impact it has on our lives.
He does this by telling chemical stories illustrated with demonstrations, and by contributing to a wide range of TV and radio programmes. By birth Italian, he was educated in the US, Kenya, Canada (where he studied with Robert H Morris) and the UK where he did his PhD in organometallic chemistry with Malcolm L H Green. He is professor of inorganic chemistry at University College London, working primarily on materials synthesis and increasingly, Citizen Science. He is heavily involved in developing new teaching strategies and in reducing the environmental impact both of his own Department and UCL as a whole. He is seldom seen without a pushbike, doesn’t drive, and seldom flies.
OpinionKathleen Lonsdale’s crystallography tables
No princes were needed on the quest for structure factors
OpinionGeissler’s glassware
How the supreme glassblower of his day shows the value of technical staff
OpinionThe Likens-Nickerson Apparatus
Tracking down an obscure kit’s creator can make you hopping mad
OpinionCouette’s cell
Maurice Marie Alfred Couette, French physicist (1858-1943) and pioneer in fluid dynamics
