English 4 October 2017 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to Jacques Dubochet University of Lausanne, Switzerland Joachim Frank Columbia University, New York, USA and Richard Henderson MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”   Cool microscope technology…

English 5 October 2016 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to Jean-Pierre SauvageUniversity of Strasbourg, France Sir J. Fraser StoddartNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and Bernard L. FeringaUniversity of Groningen, the Netherlands “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines” They developed the world’s smallest machines A tiny lift, artificial muscles…

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/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…

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…

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…