All History articles – Page 42
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FeatureDoubts and paradoxes
Robert Boyle's The sceptical chymist still holds lessons for the modern chemist - 350 years after its publication, as Mike Sutton discovers
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OpinionPardy apparatus
Martin Luther Kings great 1963 speech calling for racial equality and an end to discrimination
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OpinionWarburg's manometer
It is probably fair to say that for all its crucial importance to the smooth running of society, accountancy seldom generates great excitement or wide acclaim
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OpinionCraig's rotary evaporator
Years ago, a non-chemist friend of mine visiting my lab asked me what a rotavap was for
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Opinion
Bridgman's seal
The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories
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PodcastTetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Akshat Rathi introduces one of the key psychoactive ingredients in cannabis
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OpinionGooch's crucible
Many years ago, a friend of mine teased me about how I, as a chemist, would probably die young of some dread occupational disease
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OpinionHaldane's blood gas analyser
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who steered Ivory Coast to independence in 1959, was known as the Sage of Africa