Press Releases 2005

2005 Press Releases

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2005 Press Releases

16 October 2002

The Royal Society of Chemistry is to bestow an Extraordinary Honorary Fellowship upon Sherlock Holmes, the first detective to exploit chemical science as a means of detection.

21 December 2005

A 'morning-after' breakfast of toast with honey or golden syrup is the little-known but ideal way to combat a hangover.

09 December 2005

This seminar will look at some of the issues associated with new nuclear build in the UK, including nuclear waste and the health effects of radiation on local populations.

09 December 2005

The RSC commemorates the achievements of the great Scottish chemist Lord Todd, whose work made the DNA breakthrough of Francis Crick and James Watson possible

05 December 2005

The Royal Society of Chemistry today welcomed the Government's decision to table an amendment to Clause 6 of the Terrorism Bill

21 November 2005

Terrorism Bill's 'campus' clause threatens academics and future knowledge, says Royal Society of Chemistry

21 November 2005

The two-day assembly event and the awards dinner took the Royal Society of Chemistry to an innovative and more sophisticated level of self-presentation.

09 November 2005

On the eve of a critical examination of future British energy scenarios, the RSC is calling for urgent action to achieve a low-carbon sustainable energy strategy.

01 November 2005

The nationwide Chemistry Week 2005, which will underscore dramatically the critical importance of chemical sciences to the health and wealth of the country

31 October 2005

Bill Bryson, author of the publishing phenomenon A Short History of Nearly Everything, is honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

17 October 2005

The RSC commemorates the unsung heroism of three women - probably prostitutes - who worked amid the carnage of The Battle of Trafalgar nursing casualties.

14 October 2005

A Royal Society of Chemistry seminar being staged in central London will probe the issue global warming at a time when interest in the concept is acuter than ever.

14 October 2005

Thanks to journalists pursuing a story the RSC has discovered the identity of a woman chemical scientist whose image is featured on the Scottish �20 banknote.

07 October 2005

The Royal Society of Chemistry has started a hunt for a mystery scientist featured on a Scottish banknote.

05 October 2005

The Royal Society of Chemistry warmly welcomes the conferment today of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 on Richard Schrock, Yves Chauvin and Robert Grubbs jointly.

15 September 2005

The RSC honours a chemical scientist who made his mark in academia before transferring to the world of football.

05 September 2005

The RSC forged another link with China at an event staged on 7 September at the organisation's Cambridge Science Park offices.

02 September 2005

The RSC welcomed reports of a sharp rise in numbers of students accepting places to study the subject at degree level in 2005.

30 August 2005

Albert Einstein, whose greatest achievement is being commemorated internationally all this year, was a chemist at heart.

08 July 2005

In a competition part sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry a 24-year-old North-Eastern woman has won a prestigious chemistry-related title

06 July 2005

The phenomenal expansion of Chinese and Indian chemical sciences offers a great 21st century opportunity to the British chemistry community

28 June 2005

The RSC is pleased that the funding council report spotlights the reality that Science at universities is vulnerable and strategically important.

24 June 2005

EuCheMS, the federation of European chemical societies, today called for the planned cuts in the Framework 7 research budget to be reversed

22 June 2005

Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday turned a spotlight on the vital role of science today and in the future when he spoke at a Royal Society of Chemistry conference in Westminster

15 June 2005

The RSC is orchestrating the only event at which Parliament, Government and the UK scientific community will discuss the science behind the upcoming G8 Summit.

07 June 2005

New schools minister Andrew Adonis has today launched a scheme to provide every secondary school in Britain with a free copy of Bill Bryson's book

26 May 2005

New Journal 'Molecular BioSystems' Launched

23 May 2005

Young people named regional winners of the chemical industry's 'Young Ambassador Award'

23 May 2005

RSC tells radio listeners that the closure of Coventry University's chemistry department was an important issue regionally and nationally

16 May 2005

The University of Central Lancashire is to reintroduce a full chemistry degree within two years.

21 March 2005

World-renowned American author Bill Bryson visits the Royal Society of Chemistry Burlington House offices in London.

28 February 2005

RSC Activities at Westminster

22 February 2005

If reports that Coventry University is to abandon chemistry are well-founded then it represents another blow to science provision in the UK and to the West Midlands in particular.

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