A wonderful piece by Liz Hodgkinson for TCW. Sadly, Professor Derek Bryce-Smith died in 2011. I’ve left the following comments on the article (they’re waiting to be approved, possibly because of the hyperlink):

Liz, thanks for this. I well recall DBS (as he was known to students) from when I took my chemistry degree (1976-9). I did some research for him during one of the holidays and by way of appreciation he took me for dinner in his car, a Citroen 2CV (with very low fuel consumption). He explained that he had a Bentley but couldn’t drive it – if the paperazzi ever took a photo of him driving it, his anti-lead campaign could have bitten the dust! His Wikipedia page is here.

---

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’. Our YouTube channel is here, our Facebook channel here, our Twitter channel here. If everyone who reads this gives us £5.00 – or even better, £5.00 or more, monthly – we could change the world. You can support our work by making a donation here.