Chemists amid coronavirus five years on: Lee Cronin
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Rebecca Trager2025-03-03T09:30:00
A University of Glasgow chemist describes how Covid-19 helped establish the principle of chemputation and spur a chemistry revolution
Lee Cronin, the regius chair of chemistry at the University of Glasgow, UK, who is also founder and chief executive of the deep tech chemical science company Chemify, faced significant challenges and struggles during the Covid-19 pandemic. But he says it helped fuel an appreciation for automation in the chemistry lab and created a revolution in the field.