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Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles

Yasemin Saplakoglu — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:52:24 +0000

Imagine a nanocrystal so minuscule that it behaves like an atom. Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a category of such minute marvels, now known as quantum dots, and for developing a precise method of synthesizing them. Quantum dots are already playing important roles in electronics and in biomedicine...

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Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize

Charlie Wood — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:00:03 +0000

To catch a glimpse of the subatomic world’s unimaginably fleet-footed particles, you need to produce unimaginably brief flashes of light. Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz have shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in developing the ability to illuminate reality on almost inconceivably brief timescales. Between the 1980s and the early 2000s...

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Nobel Prize Awarded to mRNA Vaccine Scientists

Yasemin Saplakoglu — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:53:31 +0000

The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their pioneering work in the development of mRNA vaccine technology, which made possible a timely vaccine response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus are credited with helping to curb the spread of the pandemic and with saving between 14.4...

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Molecule-Building Innovators Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Yasemin Saplakoglu — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:00:42 +0000

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. Click chemistry revolutionized the options available to chemists for creating the molecules they desired. Bioorthogonal chemistry made it possible to monitor the chemical processes going on inside living cells without harming...

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Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics

Charlie Wood — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:58:09 +0000

The physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments that proved the profoundly strange quantum nature of reality. Their experiments collectively established the existence of a bizarre quantum phenomenon known as entanglement, where two widely separated particles appear to share information despite having no conceivable way of...

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