All History articles – Page 42
-
-
-
Opinion
Bridgman's seal
The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories
-
-
PodcastTetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Akshat Rathi introduces one of the key psychoactive ingredients in cannabis
-
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
-
OpinionHaldane's blood gas analyser
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who steered Ivory Coast to independence in 1959, was known as the Sage of Africa
-
FeatureThe lost Boys of quantum chemistry
Dermot Martin profiles Frank Boys, an unsung hero of theoretical chemistry
-
-
OpinionMorton flask
Baldassarre Castiglione wrote that the perfect gentleman should 'affect in all things sprezzatura' - artful effortlessness
-
-
OpinionDean-Stark apparatus
If there is any single substance that unites pretty much all chemists, it has to be water