Michael Freemantle (michael.freemantle@outlook.com) is a science writer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. After a post-doctoral research fellowship at Oxford University (1967-1969), he worked in the chemical industry for two years. From 1971 to 1985, he taught chemistry at various levels both in the UK and abroad. In 1985, he joined IUPAC as Information Officer and editor of Chemistry International. From 1994 to 2007 he was European Science Editor/Senior Correspondent for Chemical & Engineering News - the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society. He was then appointed Science Writer in Residence, a part-time post, at Queen's University Belfast and Queens University Ionic Liquid Laboratories for three years until 2010. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than ten books on chemistry and related subjects. His four most recent books are:THE LONG PURR - a tale of two strays (UK Book Publishing, 2021)• The Chemists’ War: 1914-1918 (Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2014);• Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! How Chemistry Changed the First World War (The History Press, Stroud, 2012);• An Introduction to Ionic Liquids (RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2009).
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