All nobel prize articles
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NewsCurie family holiday home to become a place for ‘women’s Nobel’ prizes
Polish billionaire bought French mansion once owned by Marie Skłodowska–Curie and Pierre Curie, and has plans to convert it into a space for women
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The earlier a chemist wins the Nobel prize the longer they are likely to live
Study suggests chemistry laureates live longer but receive a smaller longevity benefit compared with physics and medicine laureates
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Chinese city seeks to lure top scientific talent with housing subsidies
Wuxi is offering incentives worth £1.2 million to get Nobel laureates and other science superstars to move there
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Organocatalysis Nobel laureate will give prize money to underprivileged students
2021 chemistry Nobel prize winner David MacMillan founds charity in his parents’ honour
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Nobel prize medal of DFT inventor Walter Kohn is up for auction
$457,531Nobel medal and textbooks owned by scientist who fled Nazis as a child go under the hammer
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Van ’t Hoff’s Amsterdam lab becomes historic chemical landmark
Now a café and exhibition space, the building once contained the first chemistry Nobel prize winner’s research space
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Karolinska Institute pursues name changes to lose racist links
Home of medicine Nobel prize to rename building and two streets named after racist scientists
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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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Quotas for women or based on ethnicity ruled out for the Nobel prizes
Head of the body that awards the Nobel calls the small number of females Nobel laureates ‘sad’, but says quotas are the wrong approach
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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
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Asymmetric organocatalysis scoops 2021 chemistry Nobel prize
Benjamin List and David MacMillan recognised for research that makes chemistry greener
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The 2021 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Benjamin List and David MacMillan win the chemistry prize for a new way to assemble molecules
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Nobel prize in physics goes to research on complex physical systems
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi improved our understanding of everything from atoms to Earth’s climate
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Science behind sense of touch and temperature wins medicine Nobel prize
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian honoured for discovery of ion channels activated by temperature and mechanical force
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Chemistry Nobel predictions range from free-radical chemistry to MOFs
Data-crunching goes up against gut feeling as the chemistry community weighs in on their favourites for the world’s top chemistry prize
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Nobel laureates accuse China of attempting to censor Taiwanese chemist
The US National Academy of Sciences came under pressure to revoke the invite of chemistry laureate Yuan Lee to a climate summit
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UC Berkeley to auction off digital mementos of Nobel prize discoveries
Sale of digital data related to cancer immunotherapy and Crispr will be used to finance research
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Nobel laureates free to relocate to UK following changes to ‘global talent’ visas
Winners of prestigious prizes no longer need endorsements
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Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, who coined the term Anthropocene, dies
Cutzen’s passing means that all three scientists who won the 1995 chemistry Nobel prize for their ozone formation and decomposition work are gone
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