John Emsley

Dr John Emsley (born 1938) is a UK popular science writer, broadcaster and academic specialising in chemistry. He lectured at King's College London for 25 years and then became Science Writer in Residence at Imperial College London in 1990. From 1997 to 2002 he was Science Writer in Residence at the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, England, during which time he started and wrote the newsletter Chem@Cam. For more details visit John Emsley's website. Several of his books were translated into German.^[1]

Newspaper column

For six years Emsley wrote a column on chemistry for the Independent called "Molecule of the Month".

Books

• Islington Green: A Book of Revelation 2012
• Nature's Building Blocks: an A-Z Guide to the Elements 2001, 2nd edition 2011.
• A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010
• Molecules of Murder, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008
• Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving Wiley-VCH 2007
• The Elements of Murder, Oxford University Press, 2005
• Vanity, Vitality, and Virility, Oxford University Press, 2004
• Shocking History of Phosphorus, 2000. US Edition The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus, 2006
• Was it something you ate?, co-author P.Fell, Oxford University Press, 1999
• Molecules at an Exhibition, Oxford University Press, 1998
• The Elements, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 1998
• The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: Separating Facts from Fiction about Everyday Products, W.H. Freeman, 1994. (Winner of the Rhone Poulenc Science Book Prize 1995)

External links

• Biography and list of awards

References

1. ↑ see the list of his German books available in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/gnd/115585591