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NewsNobel laureate and recombinant DNA pioneer Paul Berg dies
Winner of the 1980 chemistry Nobel prize has passed away in his home on Stanford’s campus at 96
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James Lovelock, a gentleman scientist
Philip Ball reflects on the legacy of the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, who has died aged 103
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Chemistry Nobel laureate Robert Curl dies at 88
Curl’s passing means that all three scientists who won the 1996 chemistry Nobel prize for discovering fullerenes are gone
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Chemistry Nobel laureate Sidney Altman dies at 82
Canadian–American molecular biologist won the 1989 prize for discovering RNA’s catalytic ability
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Chemistry Nobel laureate Robert Grubbs dies at 79
US chemist shared 2005 prize for his role in developing the metathesis method in organic synthesis
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Chemistry Nobel laureate Ei-ichi Negishi dies at 85
Discoverer of the Negishi coupling, who did synthetic organic chemistry research at Purdue for four decades, has passed away
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Chemistry Nobel laureate Richard Ernst dies at 87
Tributes paid to NMR spectroscopy pioneer credited with laying the foundations for the development of MRI
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Tributes paid as Royal Society of Chemistry past president Eddie Abel dies
Organometallic chemistry giant passes away aged 89
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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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Friends and colleagues remember John Meurig Thomas
A letter looking back on the life of the evangelic communicator and titan of solid state chemistry
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Mario Molina, who warned of CFC threat to the ozone layer, dies
Atmospheric chemist’s work led to the phasing out of ozone-depleting substances
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Industry and academic chemistry titan John Cadogan dies
Past president of the Royal Society of Chemistry passes away aged 89
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PCR inventor Kary Mullis dies aged 74
Mullis shared the 1993 chemistry Nobel prize with Michael Smith
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Manfred Eigen, pioneer of study of exceptionally fast chemical reactions, dies aged 91
Eigen was instrumental in the development of a method to probe reactions using pulses of energy
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Nobel laureate and molecular biology pioneer Aaron Klug dies
Electron microscopy innovator who worked in Rosalind Franklin’s group has died aged 92
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Nobel chemist and GFP discoverer Osamu Shimomura dies aged 90
Green fluorescent protein isolated from jellyfish revolutionised the study of cellular processes
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Paul O'Brien, former vice president of Royal Society of Chemistry, dies aged 64
O’Brien, a ‘steadfast, positive and committed member and representative of our community’ passed away on 16 October
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Thomas Steitz, Nobel laureate who unlocked the inner workings of the ribosome dies
Steitz shared the 2009 chemistry Nobel prize for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
