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Chemistry World April 2012 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: It's All About Presence Who is the living chemist you admire most and why? |
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 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, 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. |
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. |
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 May 2, 2012 Derry Jones |
A Charismatic Genius Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: A Life in Science by Laurence Plevert, describes the scientist who won a Nobel Prize for theoretical physics, but he also made advances in physical chemistry. |
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 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 February 22, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Women Honoured with International Prize The 2007 L'Oreal Unesco awards for women in science were announced at a ceremony in Paris. This year's selections were based on materials science, so chemistry was well represented in the line-up. |
Chemistry World December 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being. |
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 June 14, 2012 Nina Notman |
A celebration of chemistry Simon Cotton's latest book, Every Molecule Tells a Story, is -- in his own words -- 'a celebration of molecules and of chemistry' aimed at school and university students, and their teachers. |
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 December 11, 2014 |
A complete chemist Remembering chemist Paul Schleyer, who passed away in November. |
Chemistry World July 1, 2014 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Chemistry and art We often write about art-related chemistry, so this issue gives us an opportunity to analyze some of these stories in a bit more depth. |
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 June 21, 2013 Laura Howes |
Chemistry laureate Jerome Karle dies Jerome Karle, joint winner of the 1985 Nobel prize in chemistry with Herbert Hauptman for their work on crystal structure determination, has died aged 94. |
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 May 7, 2014 Eugene Gerden |
Russia pays high scientific price over Ukraine The annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia and the subsequent tensions over Ukraine has seen the US Department of Energy impose a ban on scientists from Russia working in its physics and chemistry laboratories. |
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 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 December 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Surfing Web2O The rapid evolution of the world wide web is creating fresh opportunities - and challenges - for chemistry. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2015 Philip Ball |
Speaking of chemistry There were some inevitable names among the candidates for Chemistry World's 'quotable chemistry' competition, including that of Richard Feynman, a less predictable candidate. |
Chemistry World February 20, 2015 Mark Peplow |
A large life, fully lived 'I'm basically an extremely curious person,' Carl Djerassi told Chemistry World last year. That curiosity -- fueled by boundless energy -- remained undimmed right up until his death on 30 January. |
Chemistry World December 2007 Henry Nicholls |
The Chemistry Set Generation Thinking about buying a chemistry set for someone this Christmas? A nostalgic look at an inspirational toy that could be on the verge of a comeback |
Chemistry World October 30, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Celebrating chemistry There's a big birthday celebration happening in Marburg, Germany, today, attended by about 800 chemists, to commemorate the birth of chemistry as an academic subject. |
Chemistry World November 8, 2011 Walter & Howes |
EPSRC sticks to its funding strategy guns The UK's principal chemistry funding body is pressing ahead with its controversial 'shaping capability' strategy. This is despite anger over the way the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has said it will decide which areas to prioritise in the physical sciences. |
Chemistry World June 2007 |
Student Book Reviews Chemistry for CSI Fans... At the Heart of Molecular Biology... A Broad Vista of Chemistry...Rings Are Not Just for Carbons... etc. |
Chemistry World July 16, 2012 |
Dramatic Science Author Carl Djerassi thinks that chemistry is poorly represented in drama and fiction because it seems to lack the appealing metaphors of mathematics or physics. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2013 Gordon Woods |
Nobel near miss The Periodic Table and a Missed Nobel Prize by Ulf Lagerkvist and edited by Erling Norrby, is aimed at the general science reader interested in the history of the development of scientific thought. There are biographies of many European scientists. |
Chemistry World October 2010 |
A renaissance in school chemistry John Holman, former director of the UK's National Science Learning Centre, is optimistic about the current state of chemistry education. But important caveats remain |
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 |
Chemistry World April 4, 2013 Joe Connor |
An artful solution to scientist shortfall There has been much attention given recently to concerns regarding the overproduction of science graduates in the United Kingdom. |
Chemistry World March 22, 2012 Ross McLaren |
Back to the future: old reactions to help the new Researchers from the US have delved into the history of organic chemistry to help chemists better predict the effect that functional groups will have on one another within a molecule. |
Chemistry World July 6, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Whitesides Charges to the Top US chemist George Whitesides has overtaken Harvard compatriot E. J. Corey to top a league table measuring the research achievements of living chemists. |
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. |
Chemistry World November 3, 2014 John Mann |
In retrospect: from the pill to the pen One glaring Nobel Prize omission from the pantheon of life-changing drugs is the contraceptive pill. As one of the probable prize recipients, Carl Djerassi is, I believe, justly bitter about this oversight. |
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. |
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 January 5, 2015 Adam Brounsell |
Welcome to 2015 and to a new volume Chemistry World demonstrates how science is relevant to everyone, not just scientists. Discoveries never go stale; they are made anew by each person when he or she first encounters them. |
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. |
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 May 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
New Research Centres for UK Chemistry Two research centres hoping to add new dimensions to UK chemistry were officially launched last week. |
Reactive Reports Issue 60 David Bradley |
Mark Leach Interview with the owner of Meta-Synthesis, a company aimed to reveal the inner secrets of chemistry to as wide an audience as possible. |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe discusses the problem of leaning too heavily on favorite reactions |
Chemistry World March 24, 2015 Bill Griffith |
My life in the golden age of chemistry: more fun than fun Frank Albert Cotton, known to most as Al, was one of the most outstanding inorganic chemists of recent times. |
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 June 1, 2012 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Bubbleology Science I recently had the pleasure of attending a dramatic reading of Carl Djerassi's latest book, Chemistry in theatre: Insufficiency, phallacy or both, at the University of Cambridge, UK.This play deals with the science of bubbleology. |
Chemistry World July 13, 2010 Mike Brown |
NMR: Nobel work if you can get it There are plenty of practicing chemists who are grateful for Richard Ernst's work to develop what the Nobel committee described as 'perhaps the most important instrumental measuring technique within chemistry.' |