chemistry
Faith was Nobel Prize winning chemist Victor Grignard's most important discovery
Carbon is the fourth most abundant element on earth and the building block of life.
Success wouldn’t have happened if I wasn’t Scottish, says Nobel Prize winner
David WC MacMillan and German scientist Benjamin List were jointly awarded the prize for their work in creating a new way to build molecules.
Nobel Prize for chemistry honours ‘greener’ way to build molecules
The chair of the Nobel panel called the new method as ‘simple as it is ingenious’.
Scotland-born scientist joint winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry
The winners were announced by Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded for ‘genome scissors’
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna were announced as the recipients on Wednesday in Stockholm.
Periodic table found in university lab thought to be world’s oldest
The chart is thought to date from around 1885.
British Nobel Prize winner vows to party on
Sir Gregory Winter – UK winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry – intends to splash out almost £2,800 on a champagne celebration in his laboratory.
British antibody pioneer reveals chemistry Nobel Prize ‘shock’
Professor Sir Gregory Winter’s work paved the way for a new generation of ‘smart’ medicines.
British antibody pioneer wins chemistry Nobel Prize
Sir Gregory Winter was honoured for work that has led to advanced medicines.
Robot chemist discovers new molecules and reactions
University of Glasgow scientists have trained a robot to explore chemical reactions.