All Prizes and awards articles – Page 5
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Live blog: lithium-ion batteries take the 2019 chemistry Nobel prize
We covered the 2019 Nobel prize announcement as it happened
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Medicine Nobel prize rewards discovery of cells’ oxygen sensing machinery
William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza win prize for unravelling how cells sense and adapt to the life-sustaining gas
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The data behind the Nobel prizes
We’ve looked at over 100 years of data behind who and what wins the Nobel prize
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Inspired guesswork goes up against number crunching for Nobel predictions
Analysis of highly cited papers favours biochemistry while polls champion Crispr, lithium-ion batteries and MOFs
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Work on how much saliva a five-year-old makes wins chemistry Ig Nobel
This year’s Ig Nobels reward research on spit, scrotums and cockroaches, among other things
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Polymer microballs and fatberg crystals top science photo competition
From virtual reality to citizen science, photo competition shows breadth of UK research
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Nobel chemists are late-bloomers when you compare them with other laureates
Analysis reveals chemistry laureates perform their cutting edge work later in their careers
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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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Chemical scientists recognised in 2019 New Year’s Honours
Honours recognise to contributions to UK science
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Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor
Is the Nobel prize advancing or hampering scientific progress?
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The potential of promiscuity
Nobel recognition for a concept whose benefit to humankind is far from being truly realised
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Readdressing success
Prizes not only recognise excellence, they can challenge us to be better too
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MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowships recognise biophysicist and analytical chemist
Foundation awards ‘no strings’ grants for cellular compartmentalisation and cancer surgery research
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‘Chemists dismissed us as being too biologically focused’
How directed evolution winning the chemistry Nobel is going to change my field
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What is directed evolution and why did it win the chemistry Nobel prize?
If you’ve got questions about yesterday’s chemistry Nobel prize then we’ve got answers
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Chemistry Nobel prize awarded to pioneers of directed evolution
Top science gong recognises groundbreaking work that has harnessed evolution to produce biofuels and drugs
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Live blog: directed evolution takes chemistry Nobel prize
Join us as we follow all the latest events in the build-up to chemistry’s premiere prize
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Laser tools bag physics Nobel as first woman wins prize for 55 years
Arthur Ashkin, inventor of optical tweezers, shares honour with laser pulse pioneers Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou
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What is 'checkpoint therapy' and why did it win the medicine Nobel prize?
James Allison and Tasuku Honjo released the ‘brakes’ on our immune system to combat cancer