Last year’s chemistry Nobel Prize was one of the most softball predictions ever made for the Nobel Prize. The Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) has become so widely used in chemistry, biology and medicine that it is easy to forget that someone had to discover it and develop the technology. Every year Roger Tsien’s name used…
When you first meet Aaron Ciechanover, he appears to have the distracted air of a man who feels slightly inconvenienced to be in whatever situation has been apparently imposed on him. But this preoccupied demeanor belies a mind which is ready to hold forth on a disparate variety of topics with infinite verve and enthusiasm…
When I visit my favourite restaurant for lunch or dinner, I usually order a legitimate food item from the main course. But once in a while, just to indulge, I order a sample platter of appetizers. The appetizers don’t always provide the deep satisfaction that I get from eating a proper, expensive food item. But…
Lange, sehr lange schon hat mich keiner mehr zu einem Diaabend mit seinen Urlaubsbildern eingeladen. Dabei ist das doch immer recht spannend. Denn an solchen Abenden lernt man selbst beste Freunde noch ein wenig besser kennen.
Peter Agre muss so ziemlich der netteste Nobelpreisträger sein, der mir je begegnet ist. Bisher stand mir nur ein Argument zur Verfügung, um diese These zu untermauern: Eine sehr nette Plauderei mit anderen Studenten an der Emory Universität letztes Jahr. Mittlerweile habe ich derer zwei. Heute “interviewte” ich den so schlagfertigen wie intelligenten Mann 40…
These well trained chemists in swimming trunks had luck. Shortly after their bath in the Lake Constance it started to rain. Bild Christian Fleming / www.lindau-nobel.de
Image source Peter Agre has got to be one of the nicest scientists I have ever met. Until now I had only one data point to support this conclusion; a very enjoyable chat with him along with some other students last year at Emory University. Now I have two. Today in an informal, entertaining, witty…
In three weeks’ time, 280 high-school chemistry students from all over the world will meet in Cambridge in the UK for their most gruelling academic experience to date: the 41st International Chemistry Olympiad. Founded in eastern Europe in the late 1960s, in part to increase contact with other countries, the Olympiad competitions are held every…
Image source: Nobel Foundation Every year as Nobel Prize winning season approaches, one sees a flurry of predictions about prizewinners materializing on blogs. I have played the prediction game myself for a couple of years. When I was in graduate school one of my professors offered to give extra points to anyone in the class…
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