Tag Archives: Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Powerful microscopy technique brings proteins into focus
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as a technology has become more important because the field that it revolutionised – structural biology – has become more important. The international scientific community had this rise in fortunes, so to speak, acknowledged when the Nobel … Continue reading
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Tagged ACE2, covalent bonds, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-EM, direct electron detector, elastic scattering, Falcon 4, field emission gun, GABA, inelastic scattering, Joachim Frank, kinetic energy, mouse apoferritin, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, novel coronavirus, sampling frequency, signal-to-noise ratio, structural biology, Thermo Fisher Scientific, X-ray crystallography
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The Nobel intent
You’ve probably tired of this but I can’t. The Nobel Prize folks just sent out a newsletter ahead of Women’s Day, on March 8, describing the achievements of female laureates of each of the six prizes. This is a customary … Continue reading
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Tagged Donna Strickland, Gert Cori, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology, Nobel Prize for physics, women in STEM, Women's Day
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Science and the scientist
Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor won the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics for discovering a famous exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) in 1995. Their claim was first verified by a top astronomer at the time named Geoff Marcy. He was later … Continue reading
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Tagged 51 Pegasi b, Azeen Ghorayshi, Didier Queloz, Geoff Marcy, John B Goodenough, lithium-ion batteries, Michel Mayor, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Nobel Prize for physics, sexual harassment
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A case of Kuhn, quasicrystals & communication – Part IV
Dan Shechtman won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2011. This led to an explosion of interest on the subject of QCs and Shechtman’s travails in getting the theory validated. Numerous publications, from Reuters to The Hindu, published articles and reports. … Continue reading
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Tagged Current Science, Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, quasicrystals, science journalism, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
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