University focus for New Scientist
Published: 28 January 2011
The work of Professor Lee Cronin has been highlighted in this week’s issue of New Scientist.
The work of Professor Lee Cronin has been highlighted in this week’s issue of New Scientist.
In a four page article, they magazine outlines the work of one of Professor Cronin’s on-going projects – an attempt to evolve the chemical complexity for life.
The piece takes the reader through key points of the 5000 hour experiment, currently set up in the Joseph Black building.
Professor Cronin, from the School of Chemistry, said: “New Scientist hasn’t had a proper feature on chemistry at Glasgow for a very long time, for this to be published is really quite a coup.
“The work that I’m doing seems to have captured their imagination and hopefully if it brings a bit more understanding to the great research that goes on here in Glasgow, then it will be worth it.”
Along with post doctoral research Craig Richmond, Professor Cronin’s 5000 hour experiment is billed as trying to “create life from scratch using different chemical building blocks to ours”.
The article can be read here: Making life, but not as we know it.
Professor Cronin has also recently been involved in the filming of a new BBC documentary on the history of photosynthesis, along with Professor Richard Cogdell, Director of the University’s Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology.
First published: 28 January 2011
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