This lecture will describe how molecules isolated from Nature have played a key role in
many human activities from magic through to drugs. It will illustrate how chemistry and
chemists have developed some of the modern medicines that society now depends on and
which have enhanced life expectancy so spectacularly in the last 100 years.
many human activities from magic through to drugs. It will illustrate how chemistry and
chemists have developed some of the modern medicines that society now depends on and
which have enhanced life expectancy so spectacularly in the last 100 years.