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Modern alchemist to turn chemistry into gold

The Royal Institution has announced that the 2012 Christmas lectures—to be televised on BBC Four—will be delivered by Peter Wothers, a teaching fellow in the chemistry department at the University of Cambridge.

Styling him ‘the modern alchemist’, a Royal Institution statement said his lectures will cover air, water and earth, three of the elements with which ancient Greek alchemists experimented.

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