Derry Jon

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RockSolidOptimist
2010-11-29T15:09:03
The rational optimist: how prosperity evolves
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Priestley's good (and bad) companions
2010-09-28T11:44:29
Joseph Priestley: friends and foes - remarkable lives in an age of revolution
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Arsenical activities
2010-06-25T11:56:14
The arsenic century
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Becquerel to the bomb
2010-03-31T11:54:01
Uranium wars: the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age
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Warming to Gaia
2009-08-24T16:24:08
James Lovelock, born in 1919, was a frustrated physicist who graduated in chemistry and published in journals from astronomy to zoology
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Warming to Kelvin
2008-11-27T11:53:12
Kelvin: life, labours and legacy
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A lot to Bragg about
2008-04-28T13:07:40
Nobel prize winners, William Bragg (WHB, 1862-1942) and Lawrence Bragg (WLB, 1890-1971) remain a unique father and son combination
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Gene wars
2008-03-26T14:49:11
Competition in research did not begin with the structure of DNA, though James Watson's The double helix introduced it to a wider public
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'I did it my way'
2008-02-27T09:15:38
A new book by James Watson, approaching 80 years of age, may lack the impact of The double helix but, as expected, is frank, humorous and replete with aphorisms
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Passion for proteins
2007-11-29T09:03:18
Max Perutz and the secret of life
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Harwell history
2007-10-01T11:05:00
Harwell. The enigma revealed
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Scientists with a human face
2007-06-29T14:21:20
Candid science VI. More conversations with famous scientists
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Flash George
2007-03-28T14:03:43
George Porter shared the 1967 Nobel prize for chemistry with Ronald Norrish and Manfred Eigen
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Proteins, philosophy and peace
2006-08-30T12:09:08
J D Bernal: the sage of science
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Polymath Polanyi
2006-06-26T10:53:53
Michael Polanyi: scientist and philosopher