Kit Chapman

After finishing my pharmacy degree at the University of Bradford (including a year working in community and hospital pharmacies), I decided to make the unconventional leap in to science journalism. I cut my teeth on magazines for GPs and pharmacists, before taking over campaigns on the British Medical Association’s website.

From there I headed back to pharmacy, managing all clinical content in The Pharmaceutical Journal and Clinical Pharmacist, before leaping at the chance to join the Chemistry World team. I also occasionally write a bit for the Daily Telegraph and pop up in assorted skeptical podcasts.

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Review
The Chemical Reaction
2020-08-20T08:30:00
Badass chemical engineer Jaqueline Silver’s second outing has it all: explosives, villains and periodic table-based code cracking
Article
Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature
2020-08-03T08:40:00
Kit Chapman tells the story of the chemist who discovered francium, but was almost denied the credit
Feature
The complex chemistry of fire
2020-07-20T08:02:00
Despite its ubiquity in human life, chemists have still barely unlocked what’s happening amid the flames. Kit Chapman reports
Feature
The Middle East’s synchrotron is open Sesame
2020-03-30T07:45:00
How difficult is it to build a world-class research facility in the Middle East? Kit Chapman investigates
Opinion
Jimmy Robinson and the atom bomb elements
2020-03-16T09:14:00
USAF pilots flew into mushroom clouds to bring back samples that turned out to contain new elements – one of them didn’t make it home
Feature
3D printing the future
2020-02-24T09:46:00
Kit Chapman takes a tour of a US Department of Energy lab, where 3D printing is performed on a massive scale
Feature
Polly Arnold’s diversity of interests
2020-01-13T09:45:00
Kit Chapman asks the champion of actinide chemistry and diversity in science what comes next as she starts her new role at a US national lab
Careers
The high life in Switzerland
2019-10-15T08:08:00
Where the salaries and costs are as steep as the mountains
Feature
Atom-by-atom experiments at the edge of the periodic table
2019-09-30T08:16:00
Only a few atoms of oganesson have ever been made – and they all vanished in less time than it took you to read this
Research
Superheavy oganesson is a semiconductor
2019-08-06T09:30:00
The heaviest element known continues to defy the rules of the periodic table
Research
Ionisation energy of promethium fills one of the last holes in periodic table
2019-07-02T09:30:00
Experiment puts an end to 75-year-old mystery
Opinion
Fraser Stoddart: 'Even when I'm sleeping, I average 40mph'
2019-06-28T09:00:00
On rotaxanes, travel and his love of Edinburgh
Careers
When was it best to be a chemist?
2019-06-11T09:30:00
How chemists’ pay has changed over the past 100 years
Feature
Victor Ninov and the element that never was
2019-06-10T09:35:00
20 years on, Kit Chapman investigates how a scientific scandal unfolded
Opinion
Cathleen Crudden: 'I played clarinet for the Pope'
2019-05-30T09:30:00
The catalysis maven on hair metal, literature and Big Science
Careers
Some parting careers advice
2019-05-21T11:47:00
A reflection on four years as careers editor
Sponsored
How possible contaminants are investigated
2019-05-07T09:45:00Sponsored by RSSL, by Kit Chapman
The analytical stages when a suspected issue is found in a product
Opinion
Omar Yaghi: 'MOFs are the most beautiful compounds ever made'
2019-05-01T14:30:00
Omar Yaghi on why chemistry is his hobby
Podcast
Levothyroxine
2019-04-26T09:30:00
Kit Chapman investigates the drug that has been one of the top five prescription medications in the UK every year for the last two decades
Opinion
What elements are on your bucket list?
2019-04-12T10:19:00
Why chemists want to work with everything on the periodic table

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