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Safe chemistry is our professional obligation
It’s a chemist’s duty to adhere to health and safety standards and to share that knowledge with others, says Ian Wrightson.
01 July 2014
Top of the Bench
Our annual schools’ chemistry competition fuelled curiosity and excitement about chemistry among secondary school students from Derby to Beijing.
01 June 2014
Half a century on - Hodgkin's Nobel Prize remembered by the Royal Society of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded a National Chemical Landmark blue plaque to the University of Oxford Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, to cel
13 May 2014
Royal Society of Chemistry responds to Pfizer's proposed takeover of AstraZeneca
In response to news of a possible takeover of UK pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca by Pfizer, the Royal Society of Chemistry has issued a joint statemen
01 May 2014
Science festival fun
Throughout March, we inspired school students and informed the general public about the chemical sciences at science festivals in Cambridge and Birmin
18 March 2014
Philanthropist Yusuf Hamied makes generous donation to our chemistry education programme in India
Indian business leader, scientist and philanthropist, Dr Yusuf Hamied, today announced he is donating INR 8 Crore (£800,000) to the Royal Society of C
10 February 2014
Not all chemists wear white coats
Twenty members of the UK's diverse chemistry community have been named in the Science Council's '100 leading UK practising scientists,' announced toda
14 January 2014
Mr John Sharp BSc CChem FRSC Hon. MRPharmS CBiol MiBiol FIQA
19 October 1930 – 22 November 2013
22 November 2013