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Explore how chemists have revolutionized the world by creating new materials, from dyestuffs to superconductors, catering to the needs of a complex society and driving innovation in various industries.
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“The chemists who create new compositions of matter have transformed, to an even greater extent, the modern world.
“The chemists who create new compositions of matter have transformed, to an even greater extent, the modern world. They began to do this not much more than a century ago, starting with things like dyestuffs and medicines that are valuable but not needed in very large quantity.
“The chemists who create new compositions of matter have transformed, to an even greater extent, the modern world. They began to do this not much more than a century ago, starting with things like dyestuffs and medicines that are valuable but not needed in very large quantity. Sometimes, the things that they learned to produce were already known in nature; now, most products have no natural equivalent, they were created to satisfy the wants of an ever more complex society.
“The chemists who create new compositions of matter have transformed, to an even greater extent, the modern world. They began to do this not much more than a century ago, starting with things like dyestuffs and medicines that are valuable but not needed in very large quantity. Sometimes, the things that they learned to produce were already known in nature; now, most products have no natural equivalent, they were created to satisfy the wants of an ever more complex society. New metals, plastics, composites, textiles, adhesives, coatings, rubbers, insulators, conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, optical fibres, detergents, ceramics .... the list is much longer than this, and chemists created the material for them all.
“The chemists who create new compositions of matter have transformed, to an even greater extent, the modern world. They began to do this not much more than a century ago, starting with things like dyestuffs and medicines that are valuable but not needed in very large quantity. Sometimes, the things that they learned to produce were already known in nature; now, most products have no natural equivalent, they were created to satisfy the wants of an ever more complex society. New metals, plastics, composites, textiles, adhesives, coatings, rubbers, insulators, conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, optical fibres, detergents, ceramics .... the list is much longer than this, and chemists created the material for them all. A physicist, a mathematician, a biologist or an earth scientist could tell similar stories. “
“The chemists who create new compositions of matter have transformed, to an even greater extent, the modern world. They began to do this not much more than a century ago, starting with things like dyestuffs and medicines that are valuable but not needed in very large quantity. Sometimes, the things that they learned to produce were already known in nature; now, most products have no natural equivalent, they were created to satisfy the wants of an ever more complex society. New metals, plastics, composites, textiles, adhesives, coatings, rubbers, insulators, conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, optical fibres, detergents, ceramics .... the list is much longer than this, and chemists created the material for them all. A physicist, a mathematician, a biologist or an earth scientist could tell similar stories. “ Sir John Cornforth – “Scientists as Citizens” at vega.org.uk
