Chemistry Dept

News and information from Stamford School's Chemistry Department

[Royal Institution (now on Bluesky) @Ri_Science]

Happy 189th birthday to Dmitri Mendeleev, who formulated the Periodic Law and created a version of the periodic table of elements.

To celebrate this anniversary, follow us on a whistle-stop tour of the 10 elements discovered or isolated here at the Ri!

[Chemistry Dept @SS_Chemistry]

The Stamford School team enjoying the lab challenge at the Top of the Bench competition at the University of Derby last Saturday!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

[Chemistry Dept @SS_Chemistry]

Last-minute H432/02 revision session! Don’t panic folks! Good luck tomorrow (and read the question!)

[Chemistry Dept @SS_Chemistry]

Top of the Bench online test in progress - lots of thinking going on! 🧐 @RSCEastMidlands

[CLEAPSS 🏁 @CLEAPSS]

A great info sheet from @compoundchem about fireworks and how they make their sounds. Some good links to physics here as well as chemistry.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

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Even Nobel Prize medals aren’t what they used to be! 😥

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Thank you to the pupil helpers at Open Day yesterday. Here are some of them looking (mostly) happy!

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

#OnThisDay in 1803, John Dalton FRS used symbols to represent the atoms of elements in a notebook entry entitled "Observations on the Ultimate Particles of Bodies and their Combinations." This was the first use of symbols to represent the modern elements: https://t.co/ymMMhJV8EZ

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Chemistry protects!

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More escape fun, and some happy winners! #ssenrichmentweek

[Chemistry Dept @SS_Chemistry]

Further escape attempts… #ssenrichmentweek

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Year 9 today attempting their escape from the ‘fiendish’ Chemistry Escape Room today! #ssenrichmentweek