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Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020: The Genetic Scissors

The 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has, for the first time, been shared by two female scientists, Emmanuelle Charpentier from France and the American, Jennifer A. Doudna. They led separate teams to discoveries which resulted in the exciting new tool that cuts and pastes DNA and goes by the cryptic… Read More

Fritz Haber’s Nobel Prize

In the autumn of 1918 the First World War was at last approaching an end. In neutral Sweden the committee for the Nobel Prize for Chemistry met.  As in 1916 and 1917 they decided that there had been no discovery that “conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” so did not… Read More

Secondary Science – The Nobel Prize for Chemistry

The “impossible” crystals –  The 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Prof. Daniel Shechtman of Israel. The Story In 1982, forty-one year old Daniel Shechtman was spending  a couple of years in the USA, on sabbatical from his post in the… Read More

2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden – 09 Oct 2019

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 Royal… Read More