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Bucky Balls

by Jonathan Hare
Bucky Balls
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2547 views
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The Buckyball, or C-60 molecule was discovered by accident (in the lab) while trying to understand the chemistry between the stars in the Interstellar Medium ISM. The discovery led to the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996. Here we look at the structur....

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Giant Fullerenes

by Jonathan Hare
Giant Fullerenes
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2540 views
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C-60, the football caged molecule is the head of a family of carbon based structures called the Fullerenes. In this presentation we ook at the larger structures, the giant fullerenes and among other things we will explore the 60nrule us....

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How to be Right and Wrong

by John Cornforth
How to be Right and Wrong
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1798 views
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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Cornforth, overcomes his deafness to present an elegant account of how he, and his wife Rita, disentangled a historically important puzzle in steroid synthesis.

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Enzyme-Catalysed Reactions

by John Cornforth
Enzyme-Catalysed Reactions
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2194 views
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John Cornforth, (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1975), is a member of the Royal Society and is still very active in chemistry research at Sussex University. This section from longer archive recordings shows his warmth and personality, and gives an insight....

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George Gray

by George Gray
George Gray
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2379 views
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George Gray has contributed fundamentally to the research and development of liquid crystal materials which comprise the Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) that are so essential to today's information based society. He created and systematized the liquid ....

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