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Advanced Catalysts: Interfaces in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Author(s) -
Thomas John M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198910791
Subject(s) - presidential address , engineering ethics , section (typography) , biological sciences , state (computer science) , nanotechnology , engineering , engineering physics , chemistry , environmental ethics , political science , biology , computer science , philosophy , microbiology and biotechnology , materials science , public administration , operating system , algorithm
Review: The presidential address to the chemistry section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to be given in Sheffield in September, by John M. Thomas (see picture) concentrates on the roles that catalysts play in chemical synthesis both in industry and in a biological environment. The future of catalysts rests in the hands of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers who, when faced with the problem of developing a new catalytic system, can call upon experience from such diverse fields as solid state physics and biology.