Nina Notman
Science writer and editor
After finishing my organic chemistry PhD at the University of Bristol, I had come to realise that I didn’t have the patience required to be a good bench chemist. I started looking around for a career than allowed me to indulge my love for science while not being lab-based, which led me to join the journals team at the Royal Society of Chemistry with a focus on guiding papers through the peer review process. I was also given the opportunity to write magazine-style articles about some of the papers we published, something I relished. I then joined the Chemistry World team, first as a science correspondent and later as the features editor. In 2012, due to a family relocation, I went freelance and now write for a range of different chemistry and science education publications.
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Cuba: socialism, cigars and biotech
Nina Notman learns how biotechnology could potentially overtake cigars as Cuba’s most famous export
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Artificial blood
Nina Notman reports on progress towards products that can, when necessary, replace donor red blood cells
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Life on other planets
A series of missions to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn has revealed their potential to harbour life. Nina Notman looks to the skies
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Every breath you take
Nina Notman meets the chemists looking to clear the air around indoor air pollution
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The science of distilling gin
Do you know your cold compound from your London dry? Nina Notman sorts through the botanicals to find the perfect cocktail
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Maintaining the UK's nuclear deterrent
The scientific challenges of working on a weapon that can never be tested
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MOFs find a use
Nina Notman takes stock of the first products containing metal–organic frameworks to hit the shelves
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How ketamine could help treat severe depression
Nina Notman looks at how the party drug ketamine may hold the key to treating patients with severe depression
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Urban air pollution
Nina Notman meets the chemists breathing fresh air into urban air pollution research
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Personalised skincare
Nina Notman explores some of the latest scientific approaches skincare companies are using in the quest to develop high-earning anti-ageing cosmetics
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Activating C–Hemistry
Meet the organic chemists intent on breaking bonds that are generally considered to be unreactive
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Explosive science
Nina Notman learns the role chemistry plays in monitoring volcanoes and understanding the impact of their eruptions
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The offshore chemist
Catriona Gebbie talks to Nina Notman about life as the only analytical chemist on board a North Sea oil production platform
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2Heavy drugs gaining momentum
With the first approval of a drug containing deuterium looking imminent, Nina Notman surveys the deuterated drug landscape
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Plastic problems
Tiny pieces of plastic may be doing as much harm in our oceans and waterways as the big stuff, finds Nina Notman
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Marine paint innovation
Nina Notman visits the AkzoNobel site in Gateshead and meets the scientists designing the next generation of environmentally-friendly marine paints
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A Nobel cause
Nina Notman talks to the scientists at the international organisation protecting humanity from the horrors of chemical warfare