Millions upon millions of artillery shells filled with high explosives were fired in the First World War. He called the war, “the chemists’ war.” High Explosives and Propellants Pilcher was Registrar and Secretary of Britain’s Institute of Chemistry, of the forerunners of the Royal Society Chemistry. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! How Chemistry Changed the First World War (The History Press, Stroud, 2012) Īn Introduction to Ionic Liquids (RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2009).Ĭhemists were needed to control the manufacture of “munitions, explosives, metals, leather, rubber, oil, gases, food, drugs,” noted British chemist Richard Pilcher in an article published in 1917. The Chemists’ War: 1914-1918 (Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2014) He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than ten books on chemistry and related subjects. He was then appointed Science Writer in Residence, a part-time post, at Queen’s University Belfast and Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories for three years until 2010. From 1994 to 2007 he was European Science Editor/Senior Correspondent for Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society. In 1985, he joined IUPAC as Information Officer and editor of Chemistry International. From 1971 to 1985, he taught chemistry at various levels both in the UK and abroad. After a post-doctoral research fellowship at Oxford University (1967-1969), he worked in the chemical industry for two years. Michael Freemantle is a science writer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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