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Martyn Poliakoff and Brady Haran pay tribute to Ron Nyholm
This is the story of an unusual partnership which recently led to our filming a video tribute to Ron Nyholm, the founder of Education in Chemistry. We have very different backgrounds: Brady is a video journalist with a passion for science and Martyn is an inorganic chemist turned green chemist. The trigger for our interest in Nyholm was the award of the RSC Nyholm Prize for Education to Martyn in recognition of his role in promoting chemistry on YouTube. This has been done via the website Periodic Table of Videos, created and filmed by Brady. The Prize included an invitation to give a lecture to the RSC Education Division. Since Martyn has had minimal formal training in the area, the prospect of speaking about education was daunting, hence the idea of a tribute to Nyholm.
Martyn Poliakoff and Brady Haran discuss creating thier video tribute. A link to the video is included in the article.
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