abstract:Dr John Emsley (* 1938) is a UK popular science writer, broadcaster and academic specialising in chemistry. He lectured at King's College London for 25 years and then became Science Writer in Residence at Imperial College London in 1990.
At that rate of disintegration, John Emsleywrotein "Nature'sBuilding Blocks" (Oxford, 2001), "it takes over 200 yearstoreduce it to 1 percent of its formerlevel."