All nobel prize articles – Page 8
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OpinionHow to win part 5: how many people?
Bengt discusses whether the limit of three people will ever change
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OpinionHow to win part 4: chemistry on rotation?
Bengt tackles the perception that different fields ‘take it in turns’.
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OpinionHow to win part 3: investigations
In this video, Bengt reveals how the committee investigates nominees to make sure the prize goes to the right person.
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OpinionHow to win the Nobel prize part 1: criteria
Bengt Norden discusses the critera against which research is judged
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OpinionHow to win part 2: nominations
Who nominates people for the Nobel prize? Bengt explains the nomination process.
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NewsLive blog: molecular machines take the chemistry Nobel
Join us for news, gossip and comment during the build-up to chemistry’s biggest prize
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NewsNobel laureate who shone a light on GFP dies
Roger Tsien, who developed fluorescent tags to monitor cellular processes, has passed away aged 64
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NewsFemtochemistry pioneer Ahmed Zewail dies
Chemistry Nobel laureate revolutionised study of reactions and was also helped craft US science policy
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News1922 chemistry Nobel medal up for auction
Prize awarded for the discovery of non-radioactive isotopes expected to sell for £200,000
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NewsNobel prize winner and buckyball discoverer Harry Kroto dies
Former Royal Society of Chemistry president with a passion for science communication passes away aged 76
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NewsChemistry Nobel laureate Walter Kohn dies aged 93
Kohn was awarded the 1998 chemistry Nobel prize for developing density functional theory
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NewsScientists call on Iran to free jailed chemist
Open letter signed by chemistry Nobel laureates claims professor’s imprisonment is unlawful
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ResearchBreakthroughs amidst risk
We chat to Nobel prize winner Alan Heeger as he approaches his 80th birthday
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NewsChina’s first science Nobel prize exposes anxiety on research
Award raises doubts over competitive funding model that apes western science
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PodcastChemistry World podcast – November 2015
This month we meet chemisty Nobel winner, Thomas Lindahl, and we learn how bio-markers might be used to determine the time of death
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FeatureThe house that DNA built
The 2015 chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for DNA repair. Matthew Gunther reconstructs their story
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NewsChemistry Nobel laureate Richard Heck dies
Heck developed palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions that revolutionised organic chemistry