
6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism
National Geographic
A researcher on the Nobel physics committee actively tried to shut her out. So Hahn alone won the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contributions to splitting the atom. "Meitner's colleagues at the time, including physicist Niels Bohr, absolutely ...

Longmont's Zometool settling in (hopefully) for growth phase
Longmont Daily Times-Call
struts and connecting balls that, assembled, can serve as both a child's toy and a tool that helped a scientist win a Nobel Prize in chemistry? (Dan Shechtman won in 2011 for using Zometool to create a model of a quasicrystal, a type of structure ...

Joseph Farman, 82, Is Dead; Discovered Ozone Hole
New York Times
The paper by Mr. Farman and his colleagues, coupled with the research of Dr. Molina and Dr. Rowland — who with a Dutch scientist, Paul Crutzen, shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for chemistry for their ozone research — changed the international politics of ...

UD's Elizabeth Kelley has been selected from among more than 20000 ...
University of Delaware
Among the Nobel Laureates expected is Akira Suzuki of Japan's Hokkaido University, who alongside University of Delaware's Richard Heck, earned the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Heck retired from UD in 1989 as the Willis F. Harrington Professor ...