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NewsChemistry 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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NewsChemistry 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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OpinionLetters: February 2021
Readers pay tribute to Rudolf Zahradník, and share memories of colourful chemistry and investigating the persistence of pesticides
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NewsNobel 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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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 Yves Chauvin dies aged 84
Catalysis chemist unravelled how olefin metathesis reactions took place paving the way for more efficient syntheses
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NewsFormer Royal Society of Chemistry president dies
Polymer chemist and past chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Anthony Ledwith has died aged 81
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NewsFormer Royal Society of Chemistry president dies
John Mason Ward, an active member of the chemistry community and power industry chemist, has died aged 92
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NewsFormer Royal Society of Chemistry president Lord Lewis dies
Jack Lewis, inorganic chemist and member of the House of Lords, has died aged 86
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NewsFormer chief executive of Royal Society of Chemistry dies
John Ruck Keene, whose career at the society spanned more than three decades, has passed away aged 97
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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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NewsRoy David ‘Gus’ Guthrie AM CChem FRSC (1934–2013)
Former Secretary General of the RSC and founding fellow of two Australian universities died on 12 January
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Opinion
The Iron Lady
Howard Peters takes a look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, an Oxford chemistry graduate who became the UK’s only female prime minister