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31 Oct 2013: We’ve beenlooking at the mechanisms nature usesin catalysis, and the database now con-tains more than 200 enzyme reactions,with a total of about 800 reaction steps,’he says.

31 Oct 2013: Wemanage more than 1000 desktop com-puters on top of those 200 servers, sothat’s a lot of software updates to apply!We’ve built several automated installa-tion systems so ... Now inits fifth year, this is the only pan-European award for academic

31 Oct 2013: Not music, not audio novels, andcertainly not raunchy videos, but 4,900 pdf doc-uments containing the ‘outputs’ submitted by over1,200 academics in UK chemistry departments.

31 Oct 2013: Spring 2008. Teaching the chemists of the future. Complex shapes from simple molecules. Probing the properties of porphyrins. What’s next for Cambridge chemistry? Was the job of head of departmentwhat you were expecting?Well, there’s a lot more

31 Oct 2013: Autumn 2007. Simulating chemical processes. Hydrogen bonds and catalysts. The magic of helical nanotubes. Innovation – the lifeblood of science. What is the Chemistry Innovation KTN?Back in 2002, the DTI put together theChemistry Innovation Growth

31 Oct 2013: Summer 2011. Looking at solid–liquid interfaces. War hero — and Cambridge chemist. Computer simulations of biologics. Chemistry’s new head of department. Perhaps you could start by telling us alittle about your own background.I’m now a

31 Oct 2013: HOW ARE WE DOING?As a department, we do pretty well atpostgraduate and postdoc level, with agood number of women – for example,around a third of our 200-odd postdocsare female.

31 Oct 2013: More than 200 people came to his. funeral: members of his family, ex-members of his group, friends, col-leagues and neighbours, all enriched forhaving known him.The flood of messages

31 Oct 2013: department, with 150-200 postdocs, 280PhD students and 110 support staff, issueslike staff development and career progres-sion are another issue.

31 Oct 2013: Exner was an Austrianpromoter of economy and tehcnology,and the medal has been awarded tomore than 200 scientists and inventorsover the years, 17 of whom were NobelLaureates.