Interviews – Page 4
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik: 'Science is at a crossroads'
The quantum computing guru reflects on his childhood in Mexico, why he left the US for Canada, and how professors are like vampires
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Margaret Brimble: 'Spiroketals are my favourite molecules'
The New Zealand chemist on careers, creativity and why everything just has to be blue
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Fraser Stoddart: 'Even when I'm sleeping, I average 40mph'
On rotaxanes, travel and his love of Edinburgh
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Cathleen Crudden: 'I played clarinet for the Pope'
The catalysis maven on hair metal, literature and Big Science
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Omar Yaghi: 'MOFs are the most beautiful compounds ever made'
Omar Yaghi on why chemistry is his hobby
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'It blows my mind I get to use these facilities'
Element discoverer Dawn Shaughnessy on big science, future generations and Star Wars
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'God gave Linus Pauling to chemistry'
CNR Rao on inspiration, Indian chemistry and Benedict Cumberbatch
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‘I taught my local restaurant how to make noodles’
Organic chemistry maestro Jin-Quan Yu on football, food and cleaving the C–H bond
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Maki Kawai: 'Researchers in Japan should speak English'
The Chemical Society of Japan’s president on the future of Japanese research
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'I used to have a golden Rolls Royce...'
Peter Atkins on textbooks, Tibet and his legendary automobile
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Helen Sharman: 'I remember the last view I had of the Earth...'
The astronaut and chemist on mountains, science careers and the view from space
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'I feel like a chemical Peter Pan'
Martyn Poliakoff on green chemistry, Rosalind Franklin and the importance of technicians
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Malika Jeffries-EL: Pineapple does not belong on pizza!
Newly appointed ACS fellow Malika Jeffries-EL shows her New Yorker side
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'Beyoncé's assistant helped me star on The Big Bang Theory...'
George Smoot on Queen, Queen B and winning $1 million on a gameshow
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In situ with Tomas Lindahl
The DNA repair doyen on red wine, protests and what killed the Neanderthals
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Kurt Wüthrich: Nobel prize-winning footballer
Kurt Wüthrich on sport, performance enhancement and Alpine retreats
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Jean-Pierre Sauvage: 'You'd be surprised about my taste in music!'
The molecular machine maven talks reading, Jagger and winning a Nobel prize
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Frances Arnold: 'I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world'
This revolutionary engineer loves to walk, travel, and learn from nature
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'I've never been interested in microscopy'
Stefan Hell on why he doesn’t want to see your microscope collection
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Ada Yonath: 'I never wanted to be a scientist'
Nobel laureate Ada Yonath on childhood science, cat hotels and the price of fame