Scientists and Awards

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (128+ words) Prof. Wasserscheid is the Chair of Chemical Reaction Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the director of the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy and the Institute for a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy, both of which belong to the…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (852+ words) The choice was based on the validity, current interest, and coherence of the research, identifying specific factors of excellence that can contribute to the understanding of our world and our time, promoting the advancement of knowledge without borders, in accordance…...

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   (428+ words) The University of Melbourne has been celebrated at the 2026 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, with researchers and teams recognised for their outstanding contributions to science. At the awards ceremony in Sydney, University of Melbourne’s Associate Professor Karen Lamb and Science Gallery…...

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, 3+ day ago   (555+ words) When Sabrina Fernandez first joined Chris Chouinard’s research group, she was interested in becoming a forensic scientist. Heidi Sabatini arrived at Clemson University with an interest in environmental analysis shaped by her growing up on the coast. Both found opportunities…...

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…...