All nobel prize articles – Page 2
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NewsThe 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov win chemistry Nobel for quantum dots
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NewsUltrafast light pulses scoop Nobel prize in physics
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier recognised for work on attosecond experiments for studying electron dynamics
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NewsmRNA vaccine pioneers win medicine Nobel prize
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman honoured for breakthroughs that enable the rapid development of new vaccines, including several of those used against Covid-19
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FeatureDo other chemistry prizes predict the Nobels?
We’ve looked at the numbers so you don’t have to
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OpinionThe day my supervisor won the Nobel prize in chemistry
Celebrations and support in the Bertozzi lab
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FeatureFifty years since the ferrocene furore
Only two of the discoverers of the sandwich compounds that revolutionised organometallic chemistry received the Nobel prize, leaving one very big name feeling left out. Mike Sutton traces the controversy
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OpinionKarin Markides: ‘I didn’t follow the rules’
The analytical chemist who runs a preeminent Japanese research institute discusses her childhood in Sweden and how she came to chemistry
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NewsPioneers in synthetic biology and next-generation DNA sequencing among predictions for chemistry Nobel prize
Data science divinations and community chatter pick favourites for chemistry’s top prize
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NewsRussia and Belarus uninvited to Nobel prize ceremonies
Backlash prompts Nobel Foundation to backtrack on allowing Russian and Belarusian representatives
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OpinionLetters: August 2023
Readers discuss the history of atoms, and ask for help treating a chronic eye condition
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OpinionSteven Chu: ‘I’m in the process of learning chemistry’
The Nobel-winning physicist on learning chemistry, staying informed and speaking out
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NewsNobel laureate speaks of experiencing ‘male discrimination’ at annual Lindau meeting
Kurt Wüthrich describes climate of meeting of Nobel laureates as hostile
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NewsLithium-ion battery pioneer John Goodenough dies at 100
Tributes paid to the inventor of the lithium–ion battery, who has passed away a month before his 101st birthday
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NewsNobel nominations analysis reveals factors behind who won in the past
Study suggests that human influences and organised behaviour played a greater role than numbers of nominations
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OpinionJean-Marie Lehn: ‘Science or music really can take up all your life’
The supramolecular innovator on the importance of different cultures in research, working like a pianist, and being shocked by an opera
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OpinionKonstantin Novoselov: ‘I don't really know where my Nobel medal is’
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist on the importance of enthusiasm and moving on from graphene
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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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NewsGeorge Olah’s chemistry Nobel prize the latest to be auctioned off
Medal awarded almost three decades ago for work on carbocation chemistry sold for $250,000
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NewsNobel prize medal of partition chromatography’s co-inventor to be auctioned
The family of British chemist Archer Martin will sell his Nobel award in February
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OpinionDonna Strickland: ‘My career goal was to get a PhD’
The Nobel prize-winning physicist on the joys of doing nothing, meeting the Pope and how her PhD completed her life’s goals