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Tag Archives: nobel
An elemental excursion
Last December I was fortunate enough to find myself in Sweden for almost a week to join in with the celebrations surrounding the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It’s hard to put into words just what that was like (although … Continue reading
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Tagged #chemnobel, 2016 nobel prize in chemistry, arrhenius, chemistry, elements, erbium, feringa, gadolin, history of chemistry, molecular machines, nobel, nobel medal, nobel prize, periodic table, rare earths, sauvage, stoddart, terbium, vaxholm, ytterbium, ytterby, yttrium
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Not that Noble
From Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie in 1856… Either this chap was publishing under a not-terribly-creative pseudonym, or someone at the editorial office got a bit confused…
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Tagged alfred nobel, copy editing, fun, history, history of chemistry, nobel, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing
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I did a Nobel thing…
It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future – so said Niels Bohr (or maybe Yogi Berra, or Mark Twain or… boy, it’s hard to track down who *really* said something…). Anyway, @carmendrahl and @laurenkwolf from @cenmag were kind enough … Continue reading
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