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Since returning to Glasgow in 2007, Paul Braterman has concentrated on educational activities, writing for a broad audience, and campaigning in defence of science education. He is on the board of the
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Braterman is the author of over 120 technical publications and two academic books. He worked as a physical inorganic chemist, but with interests crossing traditional subject boundaries.
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as evidence of reactions taking place there. In view of the possible importance of minerals in the origins of life, he investigated as model systems, the formation and stability of
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His work with these organisations led to the blocking of teaching of creationism as science in both English and Scottish schools.
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The grandson of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Braterman was born and raised in
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In 2007, he returned to Glasgow where he is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow.
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From Stars to Stalagmites, World Scientific, 2012, ISBN 978-9814324977
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spectroscopy led on to work on bonding and reactivity in
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Creationism and climate - Birth of a new Pseudoscience.
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In 1985 he received a DSc degree. 7: 478:British Centre for Science Education 323:British Centre for Science Education 394:Scripps Institution of Oceanography 543:Braterman has also contributed to 508:, and his writing has appeared in 398:University of California San Diego 14: 708:University of North Texas faculty 683:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford 703:21st-century Scottish scientists 698:20th-century Scottish scientists 562: 487:His first popular science book, 480:, and scientific adviser to the 20: 380:, where he rose to the rank of 356:After postdoctoral research at 1: 527:International Business Times 402:Sandia National Laboratories 242:Other academic advisors 31:biography of a living person 597:Braterman, Paul S. (2012). 413:National Science Foundation 319:"From Stars to Stalagmites" 58:must be removed immediately 724: 409:Robert A. 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St Paul's School, London
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