Other Publications

“Molecular Biomimetics”, chapter in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (Marcel Dekker, 2004).

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).