Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010

Posted in Science at 10:26 am by David Bradley -- 1 Comment  

Watch the announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry live:

Winners: Heck, Negishi, Suzuki – carbon coupling (real chemistry). Three chemical reactions of major importance.

Given that a chemical won the Physics prize this year, perhaps it will be something entirely physical that wins chemistry…

Past Nobel chemists

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K Barry Sharpless Live

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A recent live Webcast gave Professor K. Barry Sharpless, the 2001 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, the opportunity to explore the intricacies of scientific discovery and how it is that when observation is concerned, good luck favours only the prepared mind.

Neither the vidcheeo nor the sound quality are great…but you cannot have everything.

The organisers also ran a one-on-one interview with …

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Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008

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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008 was awarded to Osamu Shimomura (b. 1928) of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), at Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School, Martin Chalfie (b. 1947) of Columbia University, New York, and Roger Tsien (b. 1952) of the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, “for the discovery (1962 by Shimomura) and development of the green …

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