Find me
E-mail: stuart at stuartcantrill.com
Twitter: @stuartcantrill-
Recent posts
Top posts & pages
- Another 100 chemists on Twitter
- The heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth?
- 10 quick cover-letter tips for submitting scientific papers
- My ChemDraw hell
- The smallest chiral hydrocarbon?
- 100 chemists on Twitter
- How to make sloe gin... and a little bit of chemistry
- On the nature of chemistry publishing
- 115 years of JACS titles
- An elemental excursion
Recent Comments
- CiteScore: Elsevier’s new metrics for impact | The paper is open for discussion on Imperfect impact
- Manu Saunders on Counting chemists
- cjs007 on Counting chemists
- Counting chemists | Chemical connections on Another 100 chemists on Twitter
- Counting chemists | Chemical connections on 100 chemists on Twitter
Tags
#chemnobel #iamscience aids angewandte chemie april 1st april fools day authors barton benzene blogging borromean rings c&en chemdraw chemistry chemistry publishing chemists chemjobber chemjobs chemtweeps chirality citation distributions citations cookies cover letters dad dietmar seyferth dynamic covalent chemistry editorial elements exam questions ferrocene fun genetics geography graphical abstracts haemophilia history history of chemistry hiv hydrocarbons impact factor jacs journal development journals kitchen chemistry life-in-my-own-hands lists metrics nature nature chemistry nature publishing group nobel nobel prize not top 100 but just 100 papers peer review periodic table publishing referees science scientific literature scientific publishing seearroh silicon slides social media stereochemistry synthesis talks travel twitter twitter chemists twitter list writing x-ray crystallographyArchives
Categories
Twitter mumblings
- RT @KevinADavies: American Chemical Society files lawsuit against Sci-hub -- PR: acs.org/content/acs/en… Suit: twitter.com/nosy_academic/… 8 hours ago
- RT @wbturnbull: Fantastic 4 days with the #StoddartAu family! Science, innovation, policy, publishing, education, outreach, sloe gin. Did I… 8 hours ago
- @clathrin Thanks... and :-) 8 hours ago
- ICYMI (and one that @clathrin might appreciate...) twitter.com/stuartcantrill… 10 hours ago
- And so @sirfrasersays wraps up #StoddartAu! https://t.co/FgIMA0vIC5 14 hours ago
Blog stats
- 202,462 hits
Meta
- Follow Chemical connections on WordPress.com
Tag Archives: history of chemistry
Periodic prose
It is, apparently, #WorldPoetryDay (on Twitter at least) and the question of writing a scientific paper in poetry form cropped up again (it does every now and then). And when it does, I usually end up digging through the dusty … Continue reading
An elemental excursion
Last December I was fortunate enough to find myself in Sweden for almost a week to join in with the celebrations surrounding the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It’s hard to put into words just what that was like (although … Continue reading
Posted in History of science, Life in general
Tagged #chemnobel, 2016 nobel prize in chemistry, arrhenius, chemistry, elements, erbium, feringa, gadolin, history of chemistry, molecular machines, nobel, nobel medal, nobel prize, periodic table, rare earths, sauvage, stoddart, terbium, vaxholm, ytterbium, ytterby, yttrium
Leave a comment
Not that Noble
From Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie in 1856… Either this chap was publishing under a not-terribly-creative pseudonym, or someone at the editorial office got a bit confused…
Posted in Fun
Tagged alfred nobel, copy editing, fun, history, history of chemistry, nobel, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing
1 Comment
Editor, edited
I was very pleased to be asked to write the introduction for Scientific American’s feature timed to coincide with this year’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting — the 63rd incarnation of the meeting, and this one dedicated to chemistry. The feature … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged chemistry, editing, history of chemistry, lindau, nobel laureates, nobel prizes, publishing, sciam, writing
1 Comment
