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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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Ahmed Zewail’s Nobel prize and other possessions donated to Egyptian museum
Personal effects of the ‘father of femtochemistry’ will be housed in a museum bearing his name
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2023 new year honours reward services to science
Academic, commercial and public sector scientists recognised in annual honours list
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Nobel 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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Outcry among scientists as Indian government moves to slash awards
Savings will be minimal compared with the loss of a major motivator for early-career researchers
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Opinion
A promising breakthrough in liquid condensate compartmentalisation
Tears are RNA solvent droplets that could help engineer new functions into bacteria
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Careers
Behind the scenes with Neil Barnes, winner of the Royal Society’s Hauksbee award
The physical chemistry technician reveals the inspirations that have driven his 45-year-long career
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Nobel prize rewards click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions
Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal and Carolyn Bertozzi have been awarded the 2022 chemistry Nobel prize
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The 2022 chemistry Nobel prize goes to bioorthogonal and click chemistry
Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless take chemistry’s top prize
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Quantum technology pioneers win physics Nobel
Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are honoured for establishing quantum information science
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Feature
Visualising the Nobel nomination archive
Who nominated whom for the biggest prize in chemistry
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Sequencing of genomes of ancient human relatives takes medicine Nobel prize
Svante Pääbo’s team sequenced the Neanderthal genome and discovered a previously unknown hominin
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Flexible electronics and quorum sensing among predictions for chemistry Nobel prize
Bioorthogonal chemistry and nucleic acid sequencing favoured by chemists while citation analysis forecast includes chemical engineering, molecular biology and inorganic photochemistry
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Curie family holiday home to become a place for ‘women’s Nobel’ prizes
Polish billionaire bought French mansion once owned by Marie Skłodowska–Curie and Pierre Curie, and has plans to convert it into a space for women
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The earlier a chemist wins the Nobel prize the longer they are likely to live
Study suggests chemistry laureates live longer but receive a smaller longevity benefit compared with physics and medicine laureates
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Organocatalysis Nobel laureate will give prize money to underprivileged students
2021 chemistry Nobel prize winner David MacMillan founds charity in his parents’ honour
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Nobel prize medal of DFT inventor Walter Kohn is up for auction
$457,531Nobel medal and textbooks owned by scientist who fled Nazis as a child go under the hammer
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Scientists recognised in 2022 New Year’s Honours list
Contributions to science and the UK’s pandemic response rewarded in annual list
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How organocatalysis won the Nobel prize
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how two young upstarts, Ben List and David MacMillan, created a whole new field of catalysis
