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Penny Le Couteur



Dr. Penny Le Couteur is the Dean of Arts & Science at Capilano College where she has taught chemistry for 40 years. She has a Ph.D in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed her M.Sc. and B.Sc. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

She wrote Napolean's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History, and is the author of the textbook Chemistry - A Second Course under the development of the Department of Chemistry at Capilano College. Dr. Le Couteur has also contributed to curriculum development in many original and ongoing courses in the department.

She is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She is a member of and past-president of both the Society for Canadian Women in Science and ...more

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“Alkaloids are natural fungicides, insecticides, and pesticides. It has been estimated that, on average, each of us ingests about a gram and a half of natural pesticide every day, from the plants and plant products in our diet. The estimate for residues from synthetic pesticides is around 0.15 milligrams daily—about ten thousand times less than the natural dose!”
― Penny Le Couteur, Napoleon's Buttons
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“ingestion of only one nutmeg describe nausea, profuse sweating, heart palpitations, and vastly elevated blood pressure, along with days of hallucinations.”
― Penny Le Couteur, Napoleon's Buttons
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“The British habit of taking quinine as a prophylactic precaution against malaria developed into the evening “gin and tonic”—the gin being considered necessary to make the bitter-tasting quinine in the tonic water palatable.”
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