Nobel Prize

Interview, December 2017 https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_y0wGZHkKI Interview with Chemistry Laureate Richard Henderson on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Richard Henderson answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – What was the moment when you decided to pursue science? – How was it to grow up in rural…

Interview, December 2017 https://www.youtube.com/embed/3wTlaVvRjvk Interview with Chemistry Laureate Joachim Frank on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Joachim Frank answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – When was your scientific interest first sparked? – Do you find that science and your art are related in…

Interview, December 2017 https://www.youtube.com/embed/8UPRTzQDPPY Interview with Chemistry Laureate Jacques Dubochet on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Jacques Dubochet answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Where does your passion for science come from? – How do you think that having dyslexia has shaped your…

Life on earth is built on carbon. Chains of carbon atoms, variously arranged, constitute the backbone of most of the molecules that form and regulate living systems. These molecules, large and small, of course contain several other elements too. But the greatest challenge to chemists, when they seek to replicate and even improve on nature’s…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”. Mankind wants more powerful medicines, the electronics industry is…

At first sight it seems simple enough: DNA makes RNA makes protein, and, by extension, you and me and every living thing. But this ‘central dogma of biology’, as famously called it, requires some stupendously complicated machinery to make it happen, and much of the last half century of research has been devoted to unravelling…

The discoveries awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are a shining example of how fundamental research in one area of science can sometimes lead to highly beneficial applications in another. In this case, finding the key to how a marine organism produces light unexpectedly ended-up providing researchers with a powerful array of tools with…

Lying between your genes and you are molecular machines that allow the otherwise silent information wrapped-up in your DNA to speak. Working in turn to select, transmit, read and decipher the DNA code, they drive the production of all the components needed for life. Roger Kornberg’s research focuses on the earliest phases of this process,…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Rudolph A. Marcus for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems.   Rudolph A. Marcus California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA    

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Richard R. Ernst ETH, Zürich, Switzerland for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.     Richard R. Ernst’s revolutionary development of the methodology of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has transformed…