Tag: chemistry
UK University to close chemistry department
BY Stuart HarrattThe University of Hull is to close its chemistry department.It said student numbers were "so low that these courses are no longer...
The five scholars who won two Nobel Prizes – and what sets them apart
There is often much debate about who is the greatest among sportsmen and women, movie stars, leaders or artists. But some scholars have truly...
How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize 80 years ago
By Artemis Spyrou, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State University, Sean Liddick
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State...
Nobel Prize for Chemistry Winner Failed His First College Chem Exam
MIT professor Moungi Bawendi is a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize chemistry for helping develop "quantum dots"– nanoparticles that are now found in...
Nobel prize Chemistry awarded for discovery of quantum dots that bring colour to LED lights
Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of clusters of atoms known as...
Scientists Identify Hidden Phase Transition Between Liquid and Solid
By RACHEL BERKOWITZ, LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORYImproved understanding of glassy dynamics could help scientists explain why a liquid behaves like a solid, and develop...