![]() ![]() Follow Mark on Twitter markmiodownik, and buy his book 'Liquid' at all good book shops. Mark is Professor of Materials and Society at UCL, and is also a director of the Institute of Making. ![]() His unique brand of scientific storytelling brings them and their mysterious properties alive in a captivating new way. Anna Ploszajski talks to Mark Miodownik about the subject of his new book, Liquid. Mark also was the recipient of the prestigious Michael Faraday Prize for his expertise in science communication. Structured around a plane journey, encountering water, wine, oil and more, Mark Miodownik shows that liquids are agents of death and destruction as well as substances of wonder and fascination. Chosen by The Times as one of the 100 most influential scientists in the UK, Mark Miodownik is Professor of Materials and Society at University College London, where he is also Director of the Institute of Making. Sometimes explosive, often delightful, occasionally poisonous, but always fascinating: the secret lives of liquids, from one of our best-known scientistsĪ series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you: but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And why? Why does one liquid make us drunk, and another power a jumbo jet?įrom the bestselling author of Stuff Matters comes a fascinating tour of these surprising or sinister substances - the droplets, heartbeats and ocean waves we all encounter every day. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING, PRIZE-WINNING STUFF MATTERS ![]()
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