The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Heinz A. Staab, former President of the Max Planck Society and GDCh, died on July 29

Professor Helmut Schwarz, TU Berlin, Germany, elected to another five-year term as President of the Humboldt Foundation

One-dimensional assembly of gold nanoparticles (see picture) is achieved by a sphere-to-cylinder transformation of polymer shells

Richard Neidlein, Heidelberg University, Germany, passed away on July 20

MnS microboxes, which act as an anode material for lithium ion batteries, are synthesized by simple H2S gas sulfidation approach

Book covering the production and refining of Fischer-Tropsch syncrude is reviewed by Malcolm Green, UK

Celebrating the life of A. Martin, pioneer of partition chromatography and answer to Guess the Chemist (7), on the anniversary of his death

Professor Bernd Ondruschka, the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, celebrates his 65th birthday

K. Anker Jorgensen, D. Stalke, A. Osuka, N. Mizuno, A. Ajayaghosh, M. Jansen, D. A. Leigh, B. M. Trost, and others are interviewed this month

Book on developments in the field of dendrimers and is reviewed by David K. Smith, University of York, UK