Nature: The Living Record of Science (volume III) (Chemistry) contains and translates 106 essays published by the international academic journal Nature from 1934 to 1945, which reproduces the development of chemistry in this period, and shows that researchers in the field of chemistry have been trudging hard and exploring continuously.

Niels Henrik David Bohr, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Ernest Rutherford, Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, James Chadwick, Arthur Holmes and other scientists are the authors of this series of books; the famous Chinese American physicists, Nobel physics prize winner Tsung Dao Lee took the chair of the general adviser. While the deputy chairman of the NPC regular Committee, the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Lu Yongxiang served as the Chinese editor in chief, the former editor of Sir John Maddox and the current editor in chief of Nature magazine Philip Campbell contributed as the British editor in chief.