Other Publications

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).

I was an author and editor of the European Commission Expert Group report on Synthetic Biology (2005), available from the EC at Office SDME 01/37, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium.

“Water in Science and Scientific Discovery”, chapter in A History of Water, Series II, Vol. 1: Ideas of Water from Antiquity to Modern Times, eds Terje Tvedt & Terje Oestigaard. I.B. Tauris, London, 2010.

“Making Stuff: From Bacon to Bakelite”, chapter in Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, ed. Bill Bryson (HarperPress, 2010). Amazon Bestseller (Sales Rank 56 – at time of writing)

Entries in 30-Second Elements (ed. E. Scerri). Metro Books, New York, 2013.

“From Symbol to Substance: The Technologies of Light”, in Light Show (exhibition catalogue). Hayward Publishing, London, 2013.

“Nineteenth Century Colour: Chemistry and the New Rainbow”, in Colour in the Making. Black Dog, 2013.

AMAZON.co.uk – Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Colour – Philip Ball

Entries in 30-Second Quantum Theory (ed. B. Clegg). Ivy Press, New York, 2014.

Entries in The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (2nd Edn) (Fontana, 1999).

“Supramolecular chemistry” (with Jean-Marie Lehn), in The New Chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 2000).