October 1972 has decided to award the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Christian B. Anfinsen, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation and the other half jointly to Stanford Moore and William H. Stein, booth…

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Interview, December 2017 https://www.youtube.com/embed/3wTlaVvRjvk Interview with Chemistry Laureate Joachim Frank on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Joachim Frank answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – When was your scientific interest first sparked? – Do you find that science and your art are related in…

Interview, December 2017 https://www.youtube.com/embed/8UPRTzQDPPY Interview with Chemistry Laureate Jacques Dubochet on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Jacques Dubochet answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Where does your passion for science come from? – How do you think that having dyslexia has shaped your…

Interview, December 2017 https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_y0wGZHkKI Interview with Chemistry Laureate Richard Henderson on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Richard Henderson answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – What was the moment when you decided to pursue science? – How was it to grow up in rural…

Life on earth is built on carbon. Chains of carbon atoms, variously arranged, constitute the backbone of most of the molecules that form and regulate living systems. These molecules, large and small, of course contain several other elements too. But the greatest challenge to chemists, when they seek to replicate and even improve on nature’s…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”. Mankind wants more powerful medicines, the electronics industry is…

At first sight it seems simple enough: DNA makes RNA makes protein, and, by extension, you and me and every living thing. But this ‘central dogma of biology’, as famously called it, requires some stupendously complicated machinery to make it happen, and much of the last half century of research has been devoted to unravelling…