About the Author

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SIMON COTTON, PHD, is a retired Honorary Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has decades of teaching and publishing experience in inorganic chemistry and related fields, and first worked with uranium and the lanthanides over fifty years ago; his 'Soundbite Molecules' column regularly appeared In the magazine Education in Chemistry for fifteen years, whilst he has written over 100 'Molecules of the Month' at https: //www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm