All Prizes and awards articles – Page 6
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NewsWhat is 'checkpoint therapy' and why did it win the medicine Nobel prize?
James Allison and Tasuku Honjo released the ‘brakes’ on our immune system to combat cancer
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NewsImmune-stimulating cancer treatment takes 2018 medicine Nobel
James Allison and Tasuku Honjo receive science’s highest honour for discovering how cancer stops immune cells from attacking
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FeatureAre the Nobel prizes good for science?
Philip Ball looks at whether prizes and awards help or hinder scientific progress
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NewsInstinct goes up against number-crunching for Nobel prize predictions
Chemistry predictions include inventor of the lithium–ion battery and metal–organic framework pioneers – as well as some less well known discoveries
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OpinionLetters: October 2018
Your views on prizes and diversity, biodegradable wrapping and talent searches
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NewsArt conservation using saliva wins chemistry Ig Nobel
Prizes given for research that first makes you laugh and then make you think reward some more unlikely discoveries
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CareersThe father of lithium-ion batteries
Akira Yoshino’s journey to winning Japan’s highest scientific honour
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BusinessRural power champion
Clementine Chambon is the 2018 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year for her work using bioenergy to solve environmental, social and gender challenges in rural India
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NewsIs the era of US dominance of the Nobels coming to an end?
Analysis points to declining per capita Nobel success rate
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NewsThe rich scientists get richer and the poor get poorer
Winning just one early career grant can mean picking up twice the funding over a decade
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NewsRoyal recognition for UK scientists
Contributions to science and public engagement rewarded in 2018 New Year’s Honours list
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NewsMolecular knot gets Guinness world record
David Leigh’s circular triple helix is officially the tightest knot ever tied
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NewsGeorge de Hevesy’s chemistry Nobel medal up for auction
Collection of medals of radiochemist who hid two other Nobel laureates’ gold medals from the Nazis by dissolving them is expected to fetch £120,000
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NewsHinshelwood’s 1956 chemistry Nobel prize medal to be auctioned
Medal is believed to be one of just eight ever sold
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NewsCool microscopy takes 2017 chemistry Nobel
Cryo-electron microscopy developed by Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson has transformed biochemistry
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FeatureWhat do Nobel laureates do to relax?
We asked seven chemistry Nobel laureates what they do to relax
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NewsLive blog: Cryo-EM wins the 2017 chemistry Nobel prize
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson take chemistry’s top gong
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NewsPhysiology Nobel goes to circadian clock scientists
Prize for scientists that unravelled how animals’ bodies keep time
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FeatureNobel laureate interviews
We asked seven chemistry Nobel laureates what their favourite molecule is, and learnt a few things we weren’t expecting
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OpinionDoes the Nobel prize still matter?
Outmoded, capricious and burdened with obligations – so why does everybody want one?