Maitland Jones, Jr, teaches in the Department of Chemistry at New York University. 1. What made you want to be a chemist? When I was 12 or 13, I met William Doering. I had asked/demanded (remember I was all of 12) of my parents to be allowed...

I spent last week-end at the 9th Tateshina Conference on Organic Chemistry in Nagano, a couple of hours east of Tokyo on the train (from which I enjoyed a superb view of Mt Fuji on the way back). This meeting is the Asian sister of the EUCHEM...

One of the most fundamental aspects of our job here at the Nature research journals is overseeing the peer-review process. In making our decisions on whether to accept a manuscript for publication, the advice given to us by experts on the topic in...

Carolinium and Berzelium were names proposed for what were thought to be new elements supposedly isolated from a mixture with thorium (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1904, 26, 922; Science 1904, 19, 892). It was subsequently found to be a case of mistaken...

David Andrews is in the Department of Chemistry at The University of East Anglia, and works on the quantum theory of light-matter interactions. 1. What made you want to be a chemist? I had a keen interest in science from early childhood,...