Neil Bartlett has been called "the foremost fluorine chemist in the world" by a colleague, as reported in Chemical and Engineering News. In 1962 he used his skill with that highly active reagent to produce the first-ever compound of a noble gas....

1932- American chemist who in 1962 produced the first compound containing a noble gas. Previously, scientists had believed that the noble gases were incapable of undergoing reactions. Bartlett's discovery involved combining the noble gas xenon...

Neil Bartlett is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California,...

THE ROLE: CLOWN THE ACT: BEECH BUOYS THE THEATRE: HAMMERSMITH PALAIS SHORTLY AFTER we met at the beginning of the Eighties, Simon McBurney and I decided to work on the street together. We established this clown act called the Beech Buoys...

"WHAT IS your first memory?" "Who was your first snog with?" "What were family meals like when you were young?" "What were you like as a child?" Most of us don't want to be asked questions like these, let alone have the answers acted...