Highlights from the chemistry community, with a special focus on Europe
ChemistryViews Discoveries (05/2024)
350th Birthday: Johann Konrad Dippel
German alchemist co-developed a process for the production of Prussian blue
Significant Milestones in Chemistry: A Timeline of Influential Chemists
Starting from the early alchemists we take a journey through time to examine how each of these chemists pushed the boundaries of what is possible
200th Anniversary: Death of Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist well-known for work on modern nomenclature in chemistry, equilibria, dyes, and bleaches
ChemistryViews Crossword Puzzle Results
Today we present the results of our big January chemistry crossword puzzle and the lucky winners
115th Birthday: Allene Jeanes
American chemist known for the development of large-scale dextran production and xanthan gum
Non-Covalent Interactions: Interview with Goar Sánchez-Sanz
Computational insights into these bindings, which are individually quite weak, but stabilize large structures and mediate specific bonding interactions
World-Changing Moments in Your Own Research
Crispin Lichtenberg, University of Würzburg, on his fascination with and successes in bismuth chemistry
50th Anniversary: Death of Charles D. Coryell
American chemist co-discovered promethium
Fairness and Equality in Research
Nicola Gaston, the author of Why Science Is Sexist, talks about why getting equity right from first-principles is so important