Sir Martyn Poliakoff - a research professor of chemistry at the University of Nottingham - will see the naming at a special ceremony. Sir Martyn said he was "hugely honoured" by the accolade.

Doing a 180 degree turn Nottingham chemists Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Dr Sam Tang suggest that by turning the periodic table through 180 degrees on a horizontal axis would make the Table more like a ...