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From test tube to YouTube

When: Friday, 04 March 2016 - Friday, 04 March 2016
Where: Braamfontein Campus East
BP016, Bernard Price Institute
Start time:10:00

Megastar scientist, Sir Martyn Poliakoff, to lecture at Wits about becoming a YouTube phenomenon by making videos on chemistry.

Sir Martyn Poliakoff, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham (UK) is world-renowned as one of the pioneers in Green Chemistry and as a mega star on YouTube for his videos of The Periodic Table of Elements.

Poliakoff will visit South Africa at the end of February to attend the IAP Meeting of Science Academies in Hermanus, as the Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. He will visit Wits after the meeting to give a lecture in the School of Chemistry. The lecture will be suitable for a broad audience.

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