Book Club – Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table

For this month’s Book Club podcast, it’s a highly unusual review scenario, as we get to grips with Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table, written by none other than Kit Chapman – yes, the very same Kit Chapman who was, up until recently, Chemistry World’s Comment editor. We were in the priveleged position to hear about Kit’s book from almost the moment he decided to write it. A task which required him to travel around the globe in search of answers to some of chemistry’s greatest questions: where do elements actually come from? How are they made? What happens when what we know about the periodic table turns out to be wrong?