The quantum dot story
Julia Robinson explains how quantum dots went from a theoretical prediction to everyday reality and earned Alexei Ekimov, Louis Brus and Moungi Bawendi the 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry
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Explainer: why have quantum dots won the 2023 Nobel prize?
Tiny particles that ‘added colour to nanotechnology’ have uses in TV screens, synthetic chemistry and medical devices
Nobel prize in chemistry 2023: Reactions
See our reaction to the 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry announcement
mRNA vaccine pioneers win medicine Nobel prize
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman honoured for breakthroughs that enable the rapid development of new vaccines, including several of those used against Covid-19
How click conquered chemistry
Katrina Krämer tells the story of how click and bioorthogonal chemistry came to win the 2022 Nobel prize
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Nobel vision
Looking beyond the here-and-now let click chemistry open up a whole new world of possibility
Explainer: why have bioorthogonal and click chemistry won the 2022 Nobel prize?
Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless have won the 2022 Nobel prize in chemistry – find out why
Carolyn Bertozzi: ‘Shooting hoops is very meditative’
The celebrated chemical biologist who dreamed of being a rock star before inventing the field of bioorthogonal chemistry
How organocatalysis won the Nobel prize
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how two young upstarts, Ben List and David MacMillan, created a whole new field of catalysis
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David MacMillan: ‘The medal is the real celebrity’
The Nobel prize-winner on the joys of handing out his medal to everyone, chatting with William Shatner and Alex Ferguson, and the pain of being a Scottish football fan
Explainer: why has asymmetric organocatalysis won the chemistry Nobel prize?
In a rather unexpected move by the Nobel committee, this year’s prize in chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan
Organocatalysis Nobel laureate will give prize money to underprivileged students
2021 chemistry Nobel prize winner David MacMillan founds charity in his parents’ honour
How Crispr went from niche to Nobel
Katrina Kramer tells the story of how Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed the gene editing tool that won them the 2020 Nobel prize in chemistry
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Live – Crispr wins the 2020 chemistry Nobel prize
Join us for all the latest news, views and developments on this year’s top chemistry prize
Explainer: What is Crispr and why did it win the Nobel prize?
The science behind the prize-winning gene editing tool that could change our lives
The cutting edge of gene editing
The new gene-editing tool Crispr is taking the scientific world by storm, reports Katrina Megget
This little Crispr went to market
Gene editing technology heading towards commercial reality in pharmaceuticals, food and organ transplant
Turbo-charged Crispr gene-editor can make 25 alterations in one go
Theoretically thousands of changes could be made at once using new technique
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The development of Crispr, and the ethical questions raised by new genome editing techniques
First Crispr cancer trial in humans shows safety and durability
Immune-cell modifications target tumours and lift the PD-1 ‘brake’
Crispr treatment reverses muscular dystrophy in mice
Upregulated gene triggers laminin-α1 protein production, reviving paralysed limbs
Crispr first as disease-causing mutation edited in human embryos
Faulty gene that causes serious heart condition corrected
The 2019 Nobel Prize
The 2019 Nobel Prize
The lithium pioneers
Katrina Krämer traces the full story of how lithium-ion batteries won the 2019 Nobel prize
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Why have lithium–ion batteries just won the chemistry Nobel prize?
The 2019 Nobel prize was awarded to pioneers of rechargeable battery tech – here’s what you need to know
'I wanted to be an explorer'
John Goodenough on war, peace and the power of optimism
The father of lithium-ion batteries
Akira Yoshino’s journey to winning Japan’s highest scientific honour
Goodenough rules
Bea Perks profiles a veteran scientist whose fundamental and applied research continues to shape the world we live in
Good enough at last
Neil Withers reflects on the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry, awarded for developing lithium-ion batteries
Chemistry Nobel prize ‘finally’ goes to developers of lithium-ion batteries
John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino rewarded for revolutionising the storage of energy and helping to usher in the microelectronics age
The data behind the Nobel prizes
We’ve looked at over 100 years of data behind who and what wins the Nobel prize
How to win
How to win the Nobel prize part 1: criteria
Bengt Norden discusses the critera against which research is judged
The 2018 Nobel Prize
The 2018 Nobel Prize
How chemical evolution took the 2018 chemistry Nobel prize
Emma Stoye has the full story of how Frances Arnold, George Smith and Greg Winter put evolution to work in the lab
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What is directed evolution and why did it win the chemistry Nobel prize?
If you’ve got questions about yesterday’s chemistry Nobel prize then we’ve got answers
Frances Arnold: 'I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world'
This revolutionary engineer loves to walk, travel, and learn from nature
Why we must redefine success
The battle against bias requires compassion, not metrics
Are the Nobel prizes good for science?
Philip Ball looks at whether prizes and awards help or hinder scientific progress
Morten Meldal: ‘I made some of the most beautiful fireworks’
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The quantum dot story
Julia Robinson explains how quantum dots went from a theoretical prediction to everyday reality and earned Alexei Ekimov, Louis Brus and Moungi Bawendi the 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry
2023 Nobel prize in chemistry goes to trio behind quantum dots
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov win chemistry’s top prize for work that ended up in high resolution TVs and displays
Explainer: why have quantum dots won the 2023 Nobel prize?
Tiny particles that ‘added colour to nanotechnology’ have uses in TV screens, synthetic chemistry and medical devices
The 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov win chemistry Nobel for quantum dots
Ultrafast light pulses scoop Nobel prize in physics
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier recognised for work on attosecond experiments for studying electron dynamics
The 2017 Nobel Prize
The 2017 Nobel Prize
Cryo-EM: a cold, hard look at biology
Super cool microscopy wins the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry
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Explainer: What is cryo-electron microscopy
The science behind the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry
Richard Henderson: ‘I rejected the phone call, and then noticed it was from Sweden…’
The 2017 laureate tells his story
Work on why scientists seem to enjoy licking rocks scoops chemistry Ig Nobel
Necrobotics, defecation analysis and boring lectures among other topics honoured in spoof annual award ceremony
Talent versus luck study wins Ig Nobel
Research on ice cream scoops medicine prize
Ig Nobel for chemists who analysed the smell of cinema audiences
Meowsic, nose-unblocking orgasms and colliding pedestrians among other research topics recognised in annual award ceremony
The 2016 Nobel Prize
The 2016 Nobel Prize
Supraheroes
The three winners of this year’s chemistry Nobel gave chemists the tools to make molecules into machines. Emma Stoye assembles the story
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Molecular machines
Victoria Richards investigates the world of artificial molecular machines
The day I won the Nobel prize
How you are told you have won – and what happens next
'You'd be surprised about my taste in music!'
The molecular machine maven talks reading, Jagger and winning a Nobel prize