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Chemistry World Reviews, August 2008

Photosciences of the human skin

Sun-worshipping comes with serious acute and chronic risks to the skin


Chemistry for the masses

How do you portray a science that now owes (perhaps) as much to Bill Gates as to Bunsen?


A great man and his art

In 1995 I reviewed Alfred Bader's autobiography


Sandwich compounds

It is over 50 years ago that ferrocene, the first metallocene, was discovered


Cleaning up chemical warfare

This book will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in biological and chemical warfare agents (B/C weapons)


Scuppering the sceptics

The author of this work is unusual in that he is best known for a hoax he perpetrated on an unsuspecting journal in the spring of 1996


Through a scanner darkly

The advent of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM)