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The Nobel prize in chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov ‘for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots’
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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Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov win chemistry’s top prize for work that ended up in high resolution TVs and displays
Tiny particles that ‘added colour to nanotechnology’ have uses in TV screens, synthetic chemistry and medical devices
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov win chemistry Nobel for quantum dots
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier recognised for work on attosecond experiments for studying electron dynamics
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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman honoured for breakthroughs that enable the rapid development of new vaccines, including several of those used against Covid-19
Celebrations and support in the Bertozzi lab
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The Nobel prize in chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless ‘for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry’
The Nobel prize in chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan ‘for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis’
The Nobel prize in chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna ‘for the development of a method for genome editing’
The Nobel prize in chemistry 2019 was awarded jointly to John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino ‘for the development of lithium-ion batteries’
The Nobel prize in chemistry 2018 was divided, one half awarded to Frances H Arnold ‘for the directed evolution of enzymes’, the other half jointly to George P Smith and Sir Gregory P Winter ‘for the phage display of peptides and antibodies’
The Nobel prize in chemistry 2017 was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson ‘for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution’
The Nobel prize in chemistry 2016 was awarded jointly to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa ’for the design and synthesis of molecular machines’
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
Celebrations and support in the Bertozzi lab
Looking beyond the here-and-now let click chemistry open up a whole new world of possibility
Ferrocene is a classic example of a discovery that was dismissed as a failed experiment
The gene editing technique deserves its Nobel Prize, but we should continue to interrogate how it is used
Neil Withers reflects on the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry, awarded for developing lithium-ion batteries
The 2017 laureate tells his story
Nobel recognition for a concept whose benefit to humankind is far from being truly realised
Prizes not only recognise excellence, they can challenge us to be better too
The battle against bias requires compassion, not metrics
Bengt Norden discusses the critera against which research is judged
Who nominates people for the Nobel prize? Bengt explains the nomination process.
In this video, Bengt reveals how the committee investigates nominees to make sure the prize goes to the right person.
Bengt tackles the perception that different fields ‘take it in turns’.
Bengt discusses whether the limit of three people will ever change
Winning the Nobel prize has its downsides. Some people change for the worse.
In our last video, we ask Bengt who should have won, and for his standout recipients
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