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Hideki Shirakawa, who helped turn a lab error into a Nobel, dies at 90
1+ week, 1+ day ago (809+ words) Hideki Shirakawa, a Japanese chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in 2000 for the discovery of plastics that can conduct electricity, a breakthrough that had commercial applications including making new types of semiconductors and inexpensive solar panels, died Aug. 24 in Yokohama,…...
Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome
1+ week, 1+ day ago (14+ words) Nobel laureate persisted despite widespread derision and revolutionized structural biology by protecting fragile crystals....
Ada Yonath, chemistry Nobel winner who mapped the ribosome, dies at 87
1+ week, 2+ day ago (199+ words) Her career at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel spanned more than five decades, starting when she arrived there in 1964 to pursue a doctorate in x-ray crystallography. After receiving that PhD four years later, she completed her postdoctoral research…...
Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90 – WTOP News
1+ week, 2+ day ago (209+ words) TOKYO (AP) — Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. He was 90. The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic…...
Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90
1+ week, 2+ day ago (29+ words) Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American sc......
Academic community mourns Nobel laureate Ada Yonath
1+ week, 4+ day ago (296+ words) Published - September 01, 2026 07:47 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM The academic and scientific community in Keralam has mourned the death of Professor Ada Yonath, the Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, who passed away on Monday (August 31, 2026). Prof. Yonath shared the 2009 Nobel Prize…...
Ada Yonath, Nobel laureate and crystallographer, dies at 87
1+ week, 4+ day ago (446+ words) Federation: Log in through a federation service that connects your organization to multiple systems. Use this option if your organization instructs you to use federated sign-in. Ada Yonath, Nobel laureate and crystallographer, dies at 87 She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize…...
Nobel Prize-winning Israeli chemist Ada Yonath dies at 87
1+ week, 5+ day ago (87+ words) Haaretz Yonath, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, was the first to uncover the ribosome's complete structure, despite years of skepticism from fellow scientists who dismissed her research as unrealistic Israeli Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ada Yonath, whose groundbreaking research…...
Copper nanoclusters boost flame and microbial resistance of WPU
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (393+ words) European Coatings Copper nanoclusters boost flame and microbial resistance of WPU Researchers have engineered a water-borne polyurethane composite by incorporating casein-templated copper nanoclusters as a green multifunctional nanofiller. The system integrates enhanced flame retardancy, strong antimicrobial activity, improved mechanical performance…...
Many scientists have won a Nobel Prize, but only one person ever pulled off what Marie Curie did: she won Nobels in two different sciences, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911, a feat no one has repeated in the century since
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (646+ words) The myth of Marie Curie's brilliance obscures a darker truth: her achievement was less about transcendent talent than about the systemic barriers that made it nearly impossible for anyone to repeat. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 28, 2026 Curie’s double…...