Thirty years on new home sought for Kroto’s Nobel-winning samples
Piece of chemistry history at Sussex could form heart of outreach centre
When mass spectrometrist Alaa Abdul-Sada retired from Sussex University’s chemistry department in March he passed on an innocuous-looking beaker full of dusty old test tubes to his colleague, Richard Layfield. But Layfield wasn’t fooled by their appearance, he knew that those test tubes were priceless. ‘I felt like I’d been put in charge of the crown jewels,’ he says.