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John Emsley
British scientist and science writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Born 1938 · age 88
John Emsley is a UK popular science writer, broadcaster and academic specialising in chemistry. He researched and lectured at King's College London for 25 years, authoring or co-authoring about 100 papers, and then became Science Writer in Residence at Imperial College London in 1990.
John Emsley is read about 4 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 26 July 2026
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From 1997 to 2002 he was Science Writer in Residence at the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, England, during which time he started and wrote the newsletter Chem@Cam. He is the author of more than 12 books and several of them have been translated into other languages.
