All Prizes and awards articles – Page 4
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NewsQuotas 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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ResearchExplainer: 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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NewsAsymmetric organocatalysis scoops 2021 chemistry Nobel prize
Benjamin List and David MacMillan recognised for research that makes chemistry greener
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NewsThe 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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NewsHow prizes contribute to the ‘extraordinary growth’ of a scientific field
Prize-winning topics produce more papers and retain more scientists than non-prizewinning areas
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NewsNobel 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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NewsChemistry 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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NewsIg Nobel for chemists who analysed the smell of cinema audiences
Meowsic, nose-unblocking orgasms and colliding pedestrians among other research topics recognised in annual award ceremony
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BusinessSearching for more sustainable resin materials
Paul Jones of Bitrez is the 2021 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year
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NewsUC 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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NewsNobel laureates free to relocate to UK following changes to ‘global talent’ visas
Winners of prestigious prizes no longer need endorsements
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NewsThirty years on new home sought for Kroto’s Nobel-winning samples
Piece of chemistry history at Sussex could form heart of outreach centre
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NewsCovid-19 scientists recognised in 2021 New Year’s Honours
Many awards go to scientists involved in the UK’s coronavirus response, but physicists, biochemists and materials scientists are also among those named in the list
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NewsRoyal Society of Chemistry publishes first analysis of diversity
Report digs into organisational activities, reporting on leadership, awards and grant winners
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NewsExplainer: What is Crispr and why did it win the Nobel prize?
The science behind the prize-winning gene editing tool that could change our lives
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NewsCrispr–Cas9 gene-editing inventors win chemistry Nobel prize
2020 chemistry award goes to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier
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NewsLive – Crispr wins the 2020 chemistry Nobel prize
On the day of the 2020 Nobel prize in chemistry, we covered all the action as it happened
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NewsMedicine Nobel prize goes to discoverers of hepatitis C virus
Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share prize for uncovering the disease-causing agent affecting more than 71 million people
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ResearchChemistry Nobel predictions range from organometallic chemistry to DNA synthesis
Crispr is favoured by chemists while publication analysis forecasts winners working on nanocrystals, organometallic chemistry and supramolecular self-assembly
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NewsIg Nobels feature knives created from human poo and vibrating worms
2020 Ig Nobel prizes went to teams that proved knives made of faeces fail, vibrating worms are interesting and hating chewing noises is a disorder