Tina Overton remembers Alex Johnstone, a globally recognised expert in chemistry education research, who died aged 87 on 1 December 2017
Alex Johnstone was a giant in the UK and global chemistry education communities. He published some seminal papers and won international awards for his work, including the Nyholm prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (1979) and the American Chemical Society award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry (2009).
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