All People articles – Page 13
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CareersThe daily struggle of LGBTQ+ scientists
Workplace equality for gender and sexual minorities remains a pipe dream in Stem
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PodcastLife as We Made It by Beth Shapiro – Book club
A DNA researcher tells the story of how humans have shaped the evolution of living things on Earth
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OpinionArlene Blum: ‘Our summit is reduced toxics’
The biophysical chemist on the link between climbing and reducing the use of toxic chemicals
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OpinionWeininger’s Smiles
The man whose code – and attitude to life – brought much happiness to chemists
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BusinessNanoparticles in full flow
Promethean Particles’ hydrothermal reactors make nanomaterials in liquid dispersions
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FeatureHow organocatalysis won the Nobel prize
Jamie Durrani tells the story of how two young upstarts, Ben List and David MacMillan, created a whole new field of catalysis
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BusinessPredicting and preventing production losses with AI
Seebo’s machine learning technology helps chemical manufacturers get deep insight into their processes
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NewsQuotas for women or based on ethnicity ruled out for the Nobel prizes
Head of the body that awards the Nobel calls the small number of females Nobel laureates ‘sad’, but says quotas are the wrong approach
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NewsLongest-serving National Institutes of Health chief, Francis Collins, to step down
Head of $41 billion US biomedical research agency will depart at the end of the year
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ResearchExplainer: why has asymmetric organocatalysis won the chemistry Nobel prize?
In a rather unexpected move by the Nobel committee, this year’s prize in chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan
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NewsAsymmetric organocatalysis scoops 2021 chemistry Nobel prize
Benjamin List and David MacMillan recognised for research that makes chemistry greener
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NewsThe 2021 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Benjamin List and David MacMillan win the chemistry prize for a new way to assemble molecules
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NewsHow prizes contribute to the ‘extraordinary growth’ of a scientific field
Prize-winning topics produce more papers and retain more scientists than non-prizewinning areas
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NewsNobel prize in physics goes to research on complex physical systems
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi improved our understanding of everything from atoms to Earth’s climate
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OpinionDepositing hope for the future
The rise of ChemRxiv might mean that chemists can tackle thornier cultural problems
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OpinionIn situ with Tebello Nyokong
The influential chemist on nurturing confidence in students and taking inspiration from the humanities
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OpinionLeading a lab through pandemic-induced uncertainty
Emphathy is vital to support mentees effectively
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FeatureWhat’s wrong with research culture?
A knotty mess of problems affects people doing academic research in the UK. Rachel Brazil tries to untie the tangle