The 2017 Nobel Prize winners will be announced tomorrow, so it is a good time to look back at some previous winners with particular anniversaries this year. One hundred years ago the First World War was into its fourth year. With most of the industrialised countries involved and the deaths… Read More

The Great War, or the 1st World War as it is more commonly called, was the first war that involved more than armies and navies slugging it out on land and sea. Between 1914 and 1918 most of the population of Europe was involved in some way.  Apart from them… Read More

The study of living organisms is biology, but the processes of life are carried out in cells by molecules. The study of those molecules and their reactions is a branch of chemistry called biochemistry. The 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to scientists who have speeded up evolution… Read More

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was jointly awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Bernard Feringa and Fraser Stoddart. Discover the science behind their win. Read More

Albert Einstein only won one Nobel Prize. Marie Curie won two, first in Physics and then Chemistry. Only one person has ever been awarded two Nobel Prizes for Chemistry, the English biochemist, Fred Sanger. Yet, his contribution to genomics, the modern term for his area of research, is not widely… Read More

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin winning the Nobel Prize for her study of proteins, the first and only UK female winner of the prestigious award. This article looks at her life and impressive achievements in the field of science, with accompanying activities for your students. Read More

by Peter Ellis Mandatory Credit: Photo by Naina Helen Jama/TT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10439688a) A screen displays the portraits of the laureates of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (L-R) John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino ‘for the development of lithium-ion batteries’ during a news conference at the… Read More

The Medicine/Physiology and Physics prizes went to the popular topics of body clocks and gravity waves. The subject of the Chemistry prize is perhaps a little more obscure yet very important for those interested in the molecules of life. The three chemistry prize winners, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard… Read More

Article plus activities on the recent winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2015 and their research into DNA repairs. A good, topical class or homework activity. Read More

Article and activities on the research developments behind this year's winners of the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. Read More