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Chemistry World November 2009 Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels This year the chemistry prize seems to have once again caused a bit of a commotion. The criticism? Well, some in the scientific community have suggested that the research had too strong a biological focus. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2015 |
Behind closed doors: How to win the Nobel prize Few know the process by which the winner or winners are chosen. We go behind closed doors to find out how the Nobel committee make their selection. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 3, 2014 Carmen Nobel |
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize What makes the Nobel Prize so coveted? Stephen Greyser and Mats Urde discuss the first field-based study exploring the prize from a brand and reputation perspective. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 |
Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement. |
Chemistry World October 8, 2014 |
Live blog: Single molecule spectroscopy wins chemistry Nobel prize The bloggers offer their comments on the developing Nobel Prize story and winners for 2014. |
Chemistry World October 18, 2006 Ned Stafford |
Nobel Lobbying Skews Prizes, Chemist Claims US success among the 2006 Nobel prizes has prompted a top German chemist to complain that US domination in recent years has more to do with lobbying efforts than with superiority over European peers. |
Information Today October 18, 2012 Barbara Brynko |
And the (Nobel Prize) Winner Is ... Every autumn, David Pendlebury looks forward to hearing who has won the year's Nobel Prizes. Pendlebury is a citation analyst at Thomson Reuters and spends months digging into data dating from as far as 3 decades ago in search of what he calls scientists and researchers of "Nobel class." |
Chemistry World November 1, 2014 |
An interdisciplinary celebration Rather than some biologists being woken up by a call from Stockholm to discover they are chemists, as the old joke goes, this year it was two physicists and a physical chemist. |
Chemistry World October 24, 2006 Victoria Gill |
British Scholarship Scheme to Attract the World's Best Brains The Royal Society has developed an international fellowship scheme that aims to attract the world's best scientists to the UK and give the country a business edge. |
Chemistry World November 2011 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Nobels and Nobility The 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Daniel Shechtman at Technion in Haifa, Israel, for the discovery of quasicrystals. |
Chemistry World November 26, 2012 Andrew Turley |
Solvay launches 300,000 euro chemistry prize The prize will 'reward a major scientific discovery that could shape tomorrow's chemistry and help human progress'. |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Computational chemists take Nobel prize The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Martin Karplus of Harvard University, US, Michael Levitt of Stanford University, US, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California, US, for "the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems." |
Chemistry World March 2006 |
Flashback 60 Years Ago: US chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis died... 90 Years Ago: Christian Boehmer Anfinsen was born in Pennsylvania... 95 Years Ago: Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff died... etc. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
DNA repair research takes the 2015 chemistry Nobel The 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for unraveling how cells deal with DNA damage. |
Chemistry World January 2011 |
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry Nobel laureates Harry Kroto was one of three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes (buckyballs) and he offers his opinion of Sir John (Kappa) Cornforth. |
AskMen.com |
Obama Awarded Peace Prize President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. |
Chemistry World January 16, 2015 John Hudson |
Fred Sanger -- double Nobel laureate: a biography Fred Sanger, who died in 2013 aged 94, is one of only four people to have won two Nobel prizes, and the only person to have received the chemistry prize twice. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2011 Laura Howes |
Crystals That Aren't Quite Crystalline Win Nobel Dany Shechtman took this year's chemistry Nobel Prize for his work on quasicrystals. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Patrick Walter |
Two-time chemistry Nobelist Fred Sanger dies Double chemistry Nobel laureate Frederick Sanger died yesterday at the age of 95. The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, where he spent much of his research career confirmed his death this morning. |
Chemistry World September 2009 |
Living the Nobel life In Lindau, Germany, groups of Nobel prize winners are invited to meet with a new generation of young scientists. This year was the chemists' turn and the theme of this year's event was renewable energy and climate change |
Chemistry World October 5, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Antiparasitic drugs derived from natural products take 2015 medicine Nobel The 2015 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been split between three researchers for unearthing two naturally-occurring antimicrobial products that can fight parasitic diseases such as malaria and river blindness. |
Chemistry World December 18, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Chemistry Nobel winner John Cornforth dies Sir John Cornforth, joint winner of the 1975 Nobel prize in chemistry, has died aged 96. He is best known for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, including the biosynthesis of cholesterol. |
Chemistry World November 2006 Bea Perks |
Call That Chemistry? This year's Nobel prize in chemistry was a tour de force for crystallography, underscoring the vital role chemistry plays across the sciences. |
Chemistry World November 2, 2015 Philip Robinson |
A Nobel purpose The Nobel categories are fields that support Nobel's humanitarian goals, and looking at this year's awards, there is a notable humanitarian, even humanist, flavor. |
Chemistry World November 23, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
Rivalry in science Morton Meyers examines the issue of assigning credit for scientific advances in his new book, Prize Fight. |
Salon.com November 16, 2000 Laura Miller |
And the winner is ... The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads... |
Science News May 9, 2009 Charles Niederriter |
At Nobel Conference, Scientists And Public Converse The author, a physics professor at Gustavus Adolphus College directs the Nobel Conference, an annual forum where scientists and the public discuss a contemporary scientific topic. |
Chemistry World November 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Nobels and Ozone Four of this year's Nobel prize winners are working at UK institutions... The health of the ozone layer is still in intensive care but the long-term prognosis is good... |
Chemistry World November 1, 2013 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Nobel double whammy for chemistry The chemistry prize was awarded to three US chemists for 'the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems'. The peace prize went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. |
Chemistry World April 29, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Wieland's chemistry Nobel to be sold at auction The chemistry Nobel prize awarded to German chemist Heinrich Wieland in 1927 has been put up for auction at Nate D Sanders in Los Angeles, US, with a starting price of $325,000. |
Chemistry World October 6, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Trio share Nobel for palladium-catalysed cross-coupling Richard Heck of the University of Delaware in Newark, US, Ei-ichi Negishi of Purdue University, US, and Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University in Japan, independently developed palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions as a way to forge new carbon-carbon bonds with precision |
Chemistry World March 9, 2010 Anna Lewcock |
Fund science or risk economic downfall Leading researchers and former science ministers have today warned the UK government it risks 'throwing away' years of investment unless the UK keeps pace with science funding levels in other countries. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Nobel winners call for energy R&D funding Thirty-four Nobel Prize winners are urging US President Obama to make good on his pledge to provide increased, stable funding for energy research and development. |
BusinessWeek July 4, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
Who's Your Daddy? "The Genius Factory" describes an effort by Robert K. Graham to prevent genetic decline by using the sperm of Nobel prize winners to breed superkids. |
Science News November 23, 2002 |
TimeLine: November 19, 1932 Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded Dr. Langmuir... Intricate mathematical brain solves new physics problem... Sleep comes from relaxed muscles, not tiring work |
CIO April 1, 2002 Meridith Levinson |
A Nobel Effort To promote a deeper understanding of the Nobel laureates' work, the foundation has turned its website (www.nobel.se), first established in 1995, into a virtual museum... |
Chemistry World February 25, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Nobel laureates warn on European science funding cuts A letter has been sent by 27 Nobel laureates to Jean-Claude Juncker, the European commission president, criticizing the proposed budget cuts. |
Chemistry World September 1, 2015 Philip Robinson |
Dedicated followers of fashion How do we encourage the sort of ranging scientific research that tosses a few contemplative pebbles into the pond, not knowing where the ripples will find the shore? |
Chemistry World January 8, 2015 Derry W Jones |
Great minds: reflections of 111 top scientists This perceptive and enjoyable compendium, though intelligible to non-scientific readers, will appeal especially to professional scientists aware of the characters' achievements. |
Chemistry World June 21, 2012 Laura Howes |
Chemistry nobel laureate William Knowles dies Knowles shared the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 2001 with Ryoji Noyori and Barry Sharpless, for their work in asymmetric catalysis. Noyori and Knowles shared half the prize for their work on asymmetric hydrogenation reactions. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2012 Laura Howes |
Nobel Prize Amount Cut Recently, returns on the capital of the foundation have fallen short of the amount needed to support the prizes. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2014 |
Inventors of blue LED win physics Nobel The 2014 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, of Nagoya University, Japan, and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, US, for the invention of efficient blue light emitting diodes. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Nobel laureates appeal for open access In an open letter to United States lawmakers, 41 Nobel laureates endorse the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 for open access publishing |
Science News October 12, 2002 |
A Prized Worm This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to researchers who pioneered the use of the tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans as an animal model for exploring basic processes involved in the development and behavior of multicellular organisms. |
Chemistry World March 2011 |
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry When we devised this series to run through the International Year of Chemistry, there was some concern that everyone would choose the same hero. How wrong we were. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2010 |
Lights, camera, action An interview with chemist Martyn Poliakoff, who is research professor of chemistry at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His main research interest is the application of supercritical fluids with a focus on green and sustainable chemistry. He is one of the |
Reason January 2005 |
30 Years Ago in Reason The GOP is in fact a chicken whose head has been cut off... The common denominator among [previous Nobel laureates] is their general acceptance of the Keynesian framework... etc. |
Chemistry World March 17, 2015 Bill Griffith |
The lost elements: the periodic table's shadow side This book deals with spurious elements -- those that have been claimed over the last 300 years but that do not exist or contain species already known. |
Science News Janet Raloff |
Of Presidents And Nobels If Barack Obama confirms that Steven Chu is to become the new Energy Secretary (something that is expected, next week), the Lawrence Berkeley lab chief will become the first individual to assume a Cabinet position while already in possession of a Nobel Prize. |
Science News October 20, 2007 Julie Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: The Ignobility of Wrinkles A mathematician and physicist working together won an Ig Nobel Prize for the study of rumpled sheets: Despite the light-heartedness of the prize, the team's work has been in earnest. |