Who Won the 1950
Nobel Prize Chemistry

Gene Patents Drive Medical Innovation
Wall Street Journal
Scientific acclaim is not enough; innovation requires money. Before forming Myriad, one of the co-founders, Walter Gilbert of Harvard, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for co-developing DNA sequencing. Co-founder Mark Skolnick of the University of Utah ...

Joe Farman, ozone hole discoverer, dies at 82
Mother Nature Network (blog)
Although several scientists won a Nobel Prize for their work on CFCs, Farman never received that honor. He was granted many other scientific awards, though, including the U.K. Polar Medal, the Society of Chemical Industry's environmental medal, the ...

Teens take home science gold at Intel ISEF
Science News
Herschbach, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, is the former chairman of Society for Science & the Public. The award includes a trip to Stockholm this December, where the teens will attend the Nobel Prize ceremonies. Li, Marquez and Sobczak each also ...

Petition calls for science minister to go
Chemistry World
Kablov's opinon is shared by Jaures Alferov, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Nobel Prize winner. Alferov says he is concerned that the criteria used by PricewarterhouseCooper in their work, are not suited to the realities of ...