Nobel Prize and Discoveries

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,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (14+ words) Nobel laureate persisted despite widespread derision and revolutionized structural biology by protecting fragile crystals....

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…...

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…...

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......

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…...

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…...

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…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (577+ words) Kenneth H. Marcus is a historian at the University of La Verne, La Verne, California, and one of Rudy’s three sons. Marcus’s hallmark was his ability to develop simple equations and models that could capture the essence of messy molecular phenomena....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (291+ words) Remember building model molecules with balls and sticks in chemistry class? You have J. Robert Oppenheimer to thank for that, as a quantum chemist explains....