Biographie de John Emsley
John Emsley lectured in chemistry for twenty-five years in the University of London, and he is the author of over a hundred research papers. He is now Science Writer in Residence in the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge. Dr Emsley's 'Molecule of the Month' column for The Independent, which ran from 1990 to 1996, brought home to a wide readership how chemistry impinges on every aspect of our daily lives. In 1993 he received a Glaxo Award for science writing, and in 1994 won the Chemical Industries Association's President's Award for science communication. John Emsley's much praised book The Consumers Good Chemical Guide won the Rhône-Poulenc Science Book Prize in 1995. Of its sequel, Molecules at an Exhibition, following in 1998, a review in New Scientist concluded: 'I would recommend this highly readable and entertaining book to anybody with an interest in science-and particularly to anyone who had ever claimed that chemistry is dull or incomprehensible'.