Nobel Prize 2020 – Chemistry
2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry – awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
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Nobel Prize 2019 – Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 rewards the development of the lithium-ion battery. Good choice – it is used in everything around us.
Nobel Prize 2018 – Chemistry
Today it is the 3rd of the 4 Nobel awards scheduled for announcement this week – Chemistry. This one is interesting for three reasons. Those who did not win .. but should have. Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table, and so was perhaps the ideal candidate for the Nobel prize in Chemistry, but alas he was never granted it. … Read more
Two billion year old salt gives us insights into Oxygen
Roughly about 2.5 billion years ago the atmosphere of our planet dramatically changed – the quantity of oxygen rapidly increased and so we got breathable air. We have some new insights into it now, there is a new study. There exists a layer of salt deposits within a Russian geologic basin that was laid down during … Read more
2017 Nobel Prize – Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to Jacques Dubochet University of Lausanne, Switzerland Joachim Frank Columbia University, New York, USA and Richard Henderson MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution” Like its … Read more
2016 Nobel Prize – Chemistry – Tiny Machines win
And so today it is on to the third of the big three Nobel Prizes. The announcement of a Nobel award is always a surprise. If you ever hear about a claim that somebody was once nominated for a Nobel prize but did not actually win, then unless it was a nomination that is fifty … Read more