Prestigious stateside trip for Nottingham’s green chemistry expert
February 25, 2014
The University of Nottingham’s green chemistry expert and YouTube star Professor Martyn Poliakoff has recently returned from a prestigious visit to the US and Canada, as part of a mission to showcase the excellence of UK science. Professor Poliakoff accompanied David Willetts, the Minister of Universities and Science, in his capacity as Foreign Secretary of …
YouTube experiment to celebrate scientific hero
August 17, 2012
One of the fathers of modern chemistry and a band of award winning scientists from The University of Nottingham will come together on Monday 20 August for a YouTube experiment which will see 24 chemistry videos loaded onto the social media site over as many hours. The award winning Periodic Table of Videos website, presented …
A new element in the Periodic Table… called Nottingham!?
June 20, 2012
Two new elements have been added to the Periodic Table: Flerovium and Livermorium. And, of course, the University’s Periodic Table of Videos has made the addition of Livermorium the subject of their latest video. The discoveries were made at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California – and that’s where Livermorium gets its name from. But …