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ORGANIZER:The Royal Institution of Great Britain
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DESCRIPTION:Scientists frequently talk about ‘beauty' in their work\, but r
 arely stop to think quite what they mean by it. What makes an experiment be
 autiful? Is it the clarity of the design? The elegance of the apparatus? Th
 e nature of the knowledge gained? There have been several recent attempts t
 o identify ‘beautiful' experiments in science\, especially in physics. But 
 Philip Ball argues that\, not only is chemistry often neglected in these su
 rveys\, but it has its own special kinds of beauty\, linked to the fact tha
 t it is a branch of science strongly tied to the art of making things: new 
 molecules and materials\, new smells and colours. He offers suggestions for
  ten particularly beautiful experiments in chemistry\, taken from his recen
 t book Elegant solutions. 
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\nThis talk marks the book's receipt of the 2
 007 Dingle Prize for communicating the history of science and technology fr
 om the British Society for the History of Science. 
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\nPhilip Ball is a f
 reelance writer and a consultant editor for Nature\, where he previously wo
 rked as an editor for physical sciences. He writes regularly in the scienti
 fic and popular media on all areas of science and its history\, and his boo
 ks include H2O: a biography of water (2000)\, Bright Earth: the invention o
 f colour (2001) and Critical mass: how one thing leads to another (2004)\, 
 which won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. His most recent book is
  The Devil?s doctor: Paracelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and scie
 nce (2006).
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SUMMARY:Elegant solutions
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