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Tag: periodic table

Downstream reactions from the 4-legged periodic table table

October 13, 2017 Marc Abrahams

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 […]

Arts and Science, Ig Nobelchemistry, periodic table

“Just think how many periodic tables you could put on my entire head”

June 16, 2015 Marc Abrahams

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”:

Arts and Sciencechemistry, elements, etch, hair, Nottingham, periodic table, tiny

Periodic entertainment & enlightenment

January 24, 2013 Marc Abrahams

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:

Arts and ScienceNottingham, periodic table, science, Videos

Periodic Table vs. … vs. Periodical table

March 29, 2012 Marc Abrahams

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 […]

Arts and Science, Ig Nobelperiodic table, periodical table

Ripley’s Believe It or Not: Theo’s Ig Nobel Prize

May 18, 2011 Marc Abrahams

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:

Arts and Science, Ig Nobelperiodic table

Chemists’ chemist on vodka

August 2, 2010 Marc Abrahams

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 […]

Improbable Investigators, Research Newschemistry, Mendeleev, periodic table, vodka
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