The Life of a Chemist
Chemistry
was the most important science for Alfred Nobel's own work and the
second prize area that he mentioned in his will. But the old picture of
the lonely experimenting scientist has changed dramatically: modern
scientists rely heavily on one another for progress. In this video,
eight Nobel Prize awarded chemists describe their work and compare their
own research to the adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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First Chemistry Laureate: Jacobus H. van 't Hoff
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One of Four Women: Ada Yonath
"I
think people want me to describe how awful it is to be a woman in
science. It doesn't click." Ada Yonath, one of four women awarded the
Chemistry Prize, studies the structure and function of the ribosome.
Here, she talks about her life as a scientist and her hardworking
childhood.
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Ernest Rutherford.
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Most Popular Chemistry Laureate at Nobelprize.org: Ernest Rutherford
Born
to Irish immigrants in New Zealand, it was thanks to various
scholarships that Ernest Rutherford came to Cambridge, England, and the
Cavendish Laboratory, to study physics. Rutherford is best known for
discovering the atomic nucleus and developing a model of the atom, but
was awarded the 1908 Chemistry Prize for investigations of the chemistry
of radioactive substances.
Watch a short video clip of Ernest Rutherford from 1935
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Chemist for A Day?
The
1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the invention of PCR, a
method that made it possible to copy a large number of DNA fragments in
only a few hours. In this game, you have to help the forensic lab to
copy the DNA fragments from a crime scene using a PCR machine.
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Monthly Quiz
Most Popular Field in Chemistry
In
which field of research have the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry been
awarded most times? Make a guess and click to submit your answer.
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