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Professor Chris Bishop, Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, presents a spectacular tour through the curious, and sometimes surprising, world of chemistry through demonstrations of a...
The reaction of a copper penny and concentrated nitric acid (15 M) is shown. Red-brown nitrogen dioxide is generated and some of the copper dissolves to form a blue solution of copper(II) nitrate. [2 minutes]
John Warcup Cornforth and Vladimir Prelog jointly received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1975 for their efforts to relate molecular structure to the properties of chemical compounds. Cornforth won his...
Mildred Cohn transformed the study of enzymes, building her own high-tech instruments when the right ones weren’t available. She also helped pioneer the technique of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and...
Podcast in which Lars Öhrström reveals the hidden chemistry inside modern mobile phones and the reason why current models are so much slimmer than the brick-sized models from the 1980s. Tantalum Pentoxide...
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