All nobel prize articles – Page 10
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FeatureThe resolution revolution
Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy earned three of its creators a Nobel prize this year. Emma Stoye focuses in on their story
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OpinionTwo for the price of one
This year’s Nobel prizes show that chemistry truly is the central science
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NewsSuper-resolution light microscopy wins chemistry Nobel
Prize goes to three chemists who overcame the diffraction limit to allow optical microscopy at the nanoscale
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NewsLive blog: Single molecule spectroscopy wins chemistry Nobel prize
Keep up with the latest news and gossip on the chemistry Nobel prize
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NewsInventors of blue LED win physics Nobel
Japanese trio awarded Nobel prize in physics for work that led to the development of the elusive blue light emitting diode
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ResearchCluster structure promises acid advance
After a 40-year wait, new information on how water clusters around protons stands to benefit our understanding of acids.
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NewsDan Shechtman starts presidential campaign
Nobel laureate Shechtman seeks Knesset support to run for president of Israel
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NewsChemistry Nobel winner John Cornforth dies
Pioneer of the study of enzyme stereochemistry passes away at 96
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NewsTwo-time chemistry Nobelist Fred Sanger dies
Protein and DNA sequencing pioneer passes away at age 95
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Opinion
Nobel double whammy for chemistry
Is ‘they don’t do “real” chemistry’ the worst argument ever?
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FeatureModels of success
The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry was for combining quantum and classical mechanics, as Emma Stoye discovers
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NewsNobel peace prize goes to body that aims to eliminate chemical weapons
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins prize after recent work destroying Syria’s chemical arsenal
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FeaturePaving the way to polythene
It is 50 years since Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta won the Nobel prize for their work on polymers
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NewsComputational chemists take Nobel prize
‘Secret handshake’ that joined up quantum physics with classical molecular mechanics grabs science’s top gong
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NewsChemistry laureate Jerome Karle dies
Joint winner of the 1985 Nobel prize in chemistry dies at the age of 94
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NewsScientists come together to fight EU budget cuts
Open letters from heads of research organisations and 44 Nobel laureates make the case for the economic importance of science
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CareersNobel signals for new drugs
Sarah Houlton talks to a company that’s capitalising on the chemistry of communication
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FeatureA signal honour
The 2012 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors. Phillip Broadwith looks at the molecular machinery underpinning cell signalling
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FeatureThe golden helix
The discovery of the importance and structure DNA was more than just Crick and Watson’s eureka moment. Mike Sutton untangles the tale of life’s molecular mysteries
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NewsChemistry Nobel awarded for protein receptors
US scientists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka take prestigious gong for pharmacologically important breakthroughs