Climate change
My article on “Climate change” from the February 2000 issue of Prospect is reprinted in the 2005 compilation Thinking Allowed: The Best of Prospect 1995-2005 (Atlantic, 2005).
Molecular Biomimetics
“Molecular Biomimetics”, chapter in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (Marcel Dekker, 2004).
Entries in Within The Stone
Entries in Within The Stone, a selection of essays and texts to accompany images of minerals by photographer Bill Atkinson (BrownTrout, 2004).
Materials of the Future
“Materials of the Future”, in The Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO, 2002). www.eolss.com
Contributions in The Science Book
Contributions in The Science Book (ed. P. Tallack) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001).
Supramolecular chemistry
“Supramolecular chemistry” (with Jean-Marie Lehn), in The New Chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Entries in The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought
Entries in The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (2nd Edn) (Fontana, 1999).
Why physicists make up stories in the dark
“Why physicists make up stories in the dark”, Nautilus 6 March 2014. Available here.
First waves create Nobel certainty
“First waves create Nobel certainty” [hah!], Prospect April 2014. Available here.