From Mark Peplow’s review, in the journal Nature, of the new book by Ig Nobel Prize-winner Theo Gray: Gray’s career as a chemical evangelist began in 2002, when he misread a line in Oliver Sacks’s Uncle Tungsten (Knopf, 2001) and imagined the periodic table of elements as a literal table. A skilled woodworker, Gray decided to build […]
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“Just think how many periodic tables you could put on my entire head”
Martyn Poliakoff (of the University of Nottingham) and his hair star in this epic video could be named “The Periodic Table is Etched onto One of Martyn Poliakoff’s Hairs”:
Periodic entertainment & enlightenment
In idle moments of ennui, one can always don safety glasses and indulge with a bit of entertaining enlightenment. There’s lots of it to be found in the University of Nottingham’s Periodic Table of Videos. All of them are, as you might guess, more than a bit scientifical:
Periodic Table vs. … vs. Periodical table
You are familiar with the periodic table. You may be familiar with the periodic table table, invented by Theo Gray. The top of this four-legged table is itself a periodic table of the elements. The invention led to Theo being awarded the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry (and indirectly led to other things, including his […]
Ripley’s Believe It or Not: Theo’s Ig Nobel Prize
The Ripley’s Believe It or Not comic features Theo Gray and the fact that he won an Ig Nobel Prize for inventing the four-legged periodic table table:
Chemists’ chemist on vodka
Misha Lemeshko writes: On the 31-st of January 1865 the author of the periodic table of elements Dmitri Mendeleev defended the doctoral dissertation “On the Combinations of Water with Alcohol”. People often say that in this piece Mendeleev proved that the solubility is the best for 40% of alcohol and 60% of water, and thereby […]