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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
  rarely stop to think quite what they mean by it. What makes an experiment 
 beautiful? Is it the clarity of the design? The elegance of the apparatus? 
 The nature of the knowledge gained? There have been several recent attempts
  to identify ‘beautiful' experiments in science\, especially in physics. 
 But Philip Ball argues that\, not only is chemistry often neglected in thes
 e surveys\, but it has its own special kinds of beauty\, linked to the fact
  that 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 r
 ecent book Elegant solutions. 
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\nThis talk marks the book's receipt of t
 he 2007 Dingle Prize for communicating the history of science and technolog
 y from the British Society for the History of Science. 
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\nPhilip Ball is
  a freelance writer and a consultant editor for Nature\, where he previousl
 y worked as an editor for physical sciences. He writes regularly in the sci
 entific and popular media on all areas of science and its history\, and his
  books include H2O: a biography of water (2000)\, Bright Earth: the inventi
 on of colour (2001) and Critical mass: how one thing leads to another (2004
 )\, which won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. His most recent boo
 k is The Devil?s doctor: Paracelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and 
 science (2006).
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SUMMARY:Elegant solutions
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