In this final part, Klaus Roth asks: Do Stradivarius violins really sound better than all the rest?

Chemical Secrets of the Violin Virtuosi – Part 3

Guess the Chemist (8)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Kinetics of Chemical Reactions
Book looking at experimental and theoretical kinetic methods is reviewed by Frerich Keil, Germany

So Much Fun with Chemistry: Vote & Submit Chemistry Jokes
Vote how much you like a joke and submit your own; it will be added to the form and the best one will win a prize

Stabilized Metal Nanoparticles for Selective Hydrogenation
Nanoparticles stabilized by a cationic polymer can be dispersed in wide range of solvents and ionic liquids leading to good catalytic activity

Angewandte Chemie 32/2012: Networking
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Organic Compounds Suitable For Printable Electronics
Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of thiazolothiazole derivatives for use in organic field-effect transistors are described

Roots of our Practice of Science
Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science

New Term of Office for H. Schwarz
Professor Helmut Schwarz, TU Berlin, Germany, elected to another five-year term as President of the Humboldt Foundation

Glowing Fingerprints
Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence