From the NYT As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent. In chemistry laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are stuffed to the brim on the new reduced cleaning schedule....
I admit it – when I was looking up the information for my last series of posts, I got distracted looking at other winners in all the fields (I had to find my personal favorite....actually not a US President, so if you are really curious, you'll have to check out my personal blog ), but I found a fun little connection to share, so hey, I can call it productive time! Marie Curie shared the 1903...
About 2 weeks ago, I was in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area to attend the Diabetes Research Institute's Diabetes 2.0 Conference. I have attended several of their New York conferences in the past, but I had never been to their home-base in Florida before (ironic, considering my brother and sister both live nearby). Anyway, I was given a rare opportunity, along with some of my D-Blogging peers including...
Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge Congress to act to ensure free online access to federally funded research results “For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible,” is the message that forty one Nobel Prize-winning scientists in medicine, physics, and chemistry gave to Congress [...]
In groundbreaking research that will have serious ramifications for college students everywhere, scientists have discovered that eating a hearty bacon sandwich -- say, a tasty BLT -- really will cure a hangover. Researchers claim food also speeds up the metabolism helping the body get rid of the booze more quickly. Elin Roberts, of Newcastle University's Centre for Life said: "Food doesn't soak...
U.S. Science Group Seeks Cooperation With Cuba By Jeff FranksNovember 11, 2009 HAVANA (Reuters) - A group led by the head of the United States' biggest science organization is in Cuba this week to discuss ways to rekindle scientific cooperation as U.S.-Cuba relations slowly improve under U.S. President Barack Obama. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Peter Agre, president of the American Association for...
Charting femtosecond energy flow could aid redesign of molecules to improve light captureUniversity of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.The researchers' study of green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the structural changes...
YouTube - Copenhagen: The Turning Point 1 of 5 Elizabeth May speaks about the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change 2009. The Urgency; denial and other problems; the atmospheric chemistry; global warming and greenhouse gases; Canada's not ready... China's big coal province disrupted by snow | Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of vehicles have been trapped on roads after two days of snow in China's...
5 Nov 2009, Raman Ramakrishnan , 33, a professional musician who plays the cello, is quite like his father and Nobel prize winner for chemistry, Venkatraman or ‘Venki’. Below is an excerpt from his interview with TNN. Q. Have you performed in India before, apart from the Sangat music festival? I have performed in New Delhi and [...]
Here's an excerpt from a fascinating lecture presented at Brookhaven National Lab in 2004 by Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:...
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Adelson Institute: Next month, Professor Ada Yonath will be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, becoming the fifth Israeli scientist to win this award. This has sharpened, once again, the grim statistics regarding the scarcity of Nobel laureates in the Muslim and Arab worlds. While Jews, who are only around 0.2% of the world population, have [...]
I can't tell you how surprised, even embarrassed I was to get the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Yes, I had passed the dreaded chemistry A-level for 18-year-olds back in England in 1958. But did they realize it was my third attempt? And, yes ...
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952."for their invention of partition chromatography"Archer John Porter Martin (1910 - 2002) and Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914 - 1994) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on separating substances by partition chromatography.The technique they developed was called paper chromatography but today there are many other, more effective, versions...
ndian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz from United States and Ada Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their pioneering work on the ribosomes, which may help develop new medicines in decreasing the sufferings of the humanity. Chemistry Nobel Prize 2009
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level,
Nobel Prize for Chemistry of Life | Nobel Chemistry Prize: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Cracking chemistry's mystery may be a hard nut for many, but for this trio, including two US citizens Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A Steitz and an Israeli Ada E Yonath, playing with chemistry is merely a fun. For their acumen and expertise in chemistry, they have been awarded 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The announcement