The quantum dot story

2023-10-11T17:50:00+01:00By

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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How click conquered chemistry

2022-10-14T09:02:00+01:00By

Katrina Krämer tells the story of how click and bioorthogonal chemistry came to win the 2022 Nobel prize

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How organocatalysis won the Nobel prize

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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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How Crispr went from niche to Nobel

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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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The 2019 Nobel Prize
The 2019 Nobel Prize

The lithium pioneers

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Katrina Krämer traces the full story of how lithium-ion batteries won the 2019 Nobel prize

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The 2018 Nobel Prize
The 2018 Nobel Prize

How chemical evolution took the 2018 chemistry Nobel prize

2018-10-12T13:19:00+01:00By

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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Jeremy Sanders head and shoulders

Why we must redefine success

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The battle against bias requires compassion, not metrics

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Are the Nobel prizes good for science?

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Philip Ball looks at whether prizes and awards help or hinder scientific progress

The 2017 Nobel Prize
The 2017 Nobel Prize

Cryo-EM: a cold, hard look at biology

2017-10-13T13:20:00+01:00By

Super cool microscopy wins the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry 

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The 2016 Nobel Prize
The 2016 Nobel Prize

Supraheroes

2016-10-14T15:18:00+01:00By

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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