All Culture and people articles – Page 176
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OpinionAutomatic for the chemist
How automatic structure elucidation could lead to more creative chemists
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Opinion30 Years ago: Endowment for Spinks Symposia
ICI creates £10,000 trust fund for a biennial symposium in honour of Alfred Spinks
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CareersOf castes and chemistry
From southern India to Northern Ireland, Geetha Srinivasan has been applying her research to solving real world problems, as Sarah Houlton finds out
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ReviewOrganic chemistry (2nd edn)
Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves and Stuart WarrenOxford University Press2012 | 1264pp | £44.99 (PB)ISBN 9780199270293It’s an interesting position to be in to review the second edition of a book that, quite frankly, I grew up with. Having started my undergraduate course in the same year that the first edition of ...
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CareersAllow me to demonstrate
As Peter Wothers gets ready to deliver this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures, Sarah Houlton finds out he’s had a lifetime of preparation
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News
Tragic death of Oxford astrophysicist
Steven Rawlings, co-author of maths books for chemists, was accidentally killed by his friend and colleague, the coroner has ruled
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ReviewScience tales
Darryl CunninghamMyriad Editions2012 | 176pp | £11.99 (HB)ISBN 9780956792686I recently obtained a commission to write a book about deceived wisdom: lies, hoaxes and scams, essentially all the stuff you thought was right, that’s actually wrong. So, it was a bit of a shock when Darryl Cunningham’s Science tales landed on ...
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OpinionDickens and the haunted chemist
Christmas carol author explored chemistry in fact and fiction
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Business
Solvay launches €300,000 chemistry prize
To recognise science that could ‘shape tomorrow’s chemistry and help human progress’