Richard Beatty - writer and editor
 Chemistry is a fascinating and important subject, but it's probably not the most glamorous branch of science in the eyes of many people. This makes it all the more important that educators communicate chemistry in as engaging a way as possible.   
  
My most recent involvement in this area is writing the glossary for Dorling Kindersley's The Chemistry Book (2022), which tells the story of chemistry for a general readership. Between 1999 and 2007 I was one of the authors on Marshall Cavendish's innovative children's series on the chemical elements. I wrote six books in the series: Copper, Sulfur, Phosphorus, Manganese, Boron, and The Lanthanides. The titles cover basic chemistry, geochemistry, chemical technology, and biomedicine, as well as discussing environmental concerns, and have been popular with US high school libraries. 
I also contributed chemistry articles to Dorling Kindersley’s Encyclopedia of Science CD-Rom in the 1990s, and have written several articles on applied chemistry. |