Heritage
Heritage: Melvin Calvin – The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1961
Chemistry in the real world 25th May 2021
Learn more from Melvin Calvin, in our latest Heritage post.
Heritage: Dr Willaim Lunn (1933-2017) and the creation of the William Lunn Scholarship
Chemistry in the real world 6th November 2020
In our latest heritage of blog post we are looking at a graduate from 1954, William Lunn. Lunn sadly passed away in 2017 but has remembered his time at Manchester through the introduction of a scholarship to support undergraduate chemists.
Heritage: John Charles Polyani – The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1986
Chemistry in the real world 24th July 2020
Learn more from John Polyani, in our latest Heritage post
Heritage: Michael Smith – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993
Chemistry in the real world 20th May 2020
Learn about the heritage of The Department of Chemistry, starting with a look into the life of our most recent Nobel Prize Winner Michael Smith
Celebrating Rona Robinson – Manchester’s ‘ordinary’ chemistry pioneer
Chemistry in the real world 3rd April 2020
Robinson was from a working class background and she led a seemingly ordinary life. It was this that made her so fascinating.