John Emsley

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John Emsley (* 1938 ) is a British chemist and non-fiction author.

Emsley studied chemistry at Manchester University with a bachelor's degree and doctorate from Norman Paddock in inorganic chemistry via phosphazenes . He researched and taught at King's College London for 25 years (as a lecturer and most recently as a reader) until the 1990s. Later he was Science Writer in Residence at Imperial College and then in the same capacity at Cambridge University (he edited the Chem @ Cam newsletter). In addition, he advised the chemical advertising industry (BACC, Broadcast Advertising Clearance Center, now Clearcast) for around 11 years.

As a chemist, he dealt with non-metallic inorganic chemistry and strong hydrogen bonds. In 1984 he received a D.Sc. of the University of London.

Emsley published popular chemistry books and had a column entitled Molecule of the Month in The Independent for six years . He has also written for other newspapers such as New Scientist (with an article on the history of phosphorus in that magazine began his career as a science journalist in the 1970s) and Wired. In the 1980s he was a chemistry consultant for New Scientist.

In 2003 he received the GDCh Prize for Journalists and Writers . In 2006 he received the first Society of Chemical Industry Science Communication Award and in 2004 he became an honorary member of the Society of Chemical Industry. In 2000 he received the Royal Society of Chemistry's Award for Tertiary Education.

He also wrote a novel ( Islington Green: A Book of Revelation , 2012).

Fonts

  • Nature's Building Blocks: An AZ Guide to the Elements 2001, 2nd edition 2011.
  • The Elements , 1989, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 1998
    • German edition: The Elements , De Gruyter 1994
  • A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World , Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010
  • Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving Wiley-VCH 2007
  • The Elements of Murder. A History of Poison , Oxford University Press, 2005
  • Molecules of Murder , Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008
    • German edition: Murderous elements, prominent deaths, Wiley-VCH 2006
  • Vanity, Vitality, and Virility , Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Fries, fat and wrinkle cream: Even more chemistry in everyday life , Wiley-VCH 2009
  • Love, Light, and Lipstick: The Best of John Emsley , Wiley-VCH 2007
  • Live, love, lift: feel good all round with chemistry , Wiley-VCH 2008
  • Sun, sex and chocolate: More chemistry in everyday life , Wiley-VCH 2003
  • Perfume, port wine, PVC ...: Chemistry in everyday life , Wiley-VCH 2003
  • Shocking History of Phosphorus , 2000.
    • US edition The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus , 2006
    • German edition: Phosphorus. The Element on Life and Death , Wiley-VCH 2001
  • with P. Fell: Was it something you ate? Food Intolerance: What Causes It and How to Avoid It , Oxford University Press, 1999
    • German edition: When food makes you sick , Wiley-VCH 2000
  • Molecules at an Exhibition. Portraits of intriguing materials in everyday life , Oxford University Press, 1998
  • The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: Separating Facts from Fiction about Everyday Products , WH Freeman, 1994. (Won the Rhone Poulenc Science Book Prize in 1995)
  • Chemistry at Home: Exploring the Ingredients in Everyday Products , Royal Society of Chemistry
  • with James Feeney, Leslie Howard Sutcliffe: High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Pergamon 1965

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Molecule of the Month, for which he received the President's Award of the Chemical Industry Association in 1994
  2. ↑ In 1992 he received the Glaxo Award for a contribution to the BBC on phosphorus
personal data
SURNAME Emsley, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1938