The 2010 Nobel Prizes are underway! Winning one of these is pretty cool. Some say that if you bite into the medal, you can actually taste Alfred Nobel's remorse.
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Medicine & Physiology: Awarded to Robert Edwards of the UK, for his work in developing IVF. Edwards developed the technique with Patrick Steptoe, but since he passed away in '88 and the award cannot be made posthumously Edwards gets it aaaall to himself. The Vatican is apparently getting its knickers in a twist over this, because precious [strike]bodily fluids[/strike] embryos are wasted in the IVF process, but scientists have yet to confirm whether anyone in the Vatican wears knickers anyway.
The livestream on nobelprize.org has opened but I can't get it to start. Is the traffic too heavy? I've no idea how many or few people would be hitting the site right now.
This article explains it in a little more detail. It's essentially a toolkit for synthesising complex organic molecules? I think? So yeah, go these guys.
The next award is literature. That should be easier to follow. I mean, we all know what a book is, right? I don't need to make the word "book" a hyperlink do I?
The next award is literature. That should be easier to follow. I mean, we all know what a book is, right? I don't need to make the word "book" a hyperlink do I?
You'll probably have to link to some obscure, European author, though. I hope it's something that actually in print in the US this year so I can get it in my store.
Palladium catalysis sounds like it could make life a lot easier. Used to be (and still often is) the case that if you needed an organic molecule you had to get it from an organic source, or put a gene into a bacteria to produce it if it wasn't easy to get hold of. There was a lot of clean up, and often you got it out by smashing open whatever it was in and centrifuging/ dissolving/ preferentially bonding the remains. Making organic molecules from inorganic substrates could potentially be a huge hassle and not exactly energy efficient. If this makes it easier to bond organic molecules from inorganic components, we might see a big jump in organic polymer production (organic plastics). Gonna go read up on this.
Palladium catalysis sounds like it could make life a lot easier. Used to be (and still often is) the case that if you needed an organic molecule you had to get it from an organic source, or put a gene into a bacteria to produce it if it wasn't easy to get hold of. There was a lot of clean up, and often you got it out by smashing open whatever it was in and centrifuging/ dissolving/ preferentially bonding the remains. Making organic molecules from inorganic substrates could potentially be a huge hassle and not exactly energy efficient. If this makes it easier to bond organic molecules from inorganic components, we might see a big jump in organic polymer production (organic plastics). Gonna go read up on this.
These are well-established reactions that have been known for decades, so I would not expect an explosion of new stuff based on these reactions.
I wonder why Stille (organostannane compounds) was not selected instead of Negishi (organozinc) or Suzuki (organoborane).
Linked carbon atoms in a thin sheet (like 1 atom thick) that is extremely strong, lightweight, and very conductive. It could revolutionize aerospace materials, vehicles, and replace copper and silicon in electronics.
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edited October 2010
Hah, so I'm reading the BBC article on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and there's a paragraph talking about discodermolide, a compound mentioned in the article Butler linked, which I'm assuming was where the information was lifted directly off of.
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give it to the guy who invented I Can't Believe It's Not Butter or the pioneers of the inverted grilled cheese
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I didn't punch anyone this week
That's four more than me, I could just spot Seamus Heaney.
because he should
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The Nobel Prize for Relaxomics.
Also I think Obama should win for Peace again.
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aw man I knew I shouldn't have punched that one guy
It's not announced until Friday! There's still time!
sure you punched his face but his face isn't there anymore so he should get over it
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now we know how he beat you, butler. He is cheating!
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and by "for dinner" I mean "linked in the OP"
I wanna see cool stuff I didn't already know about! I guess that is not what the nobel prizes are about though
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
This article explains it in a little more detail. It's essentially a toolkit for synthesising complex organic molecules? I think? So yeah, go these guys.
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You'll probably have to link to some obscure, European author, though. I hope it's something that actually in print in the US this year so I can get it in my store.
These are well-established reactions that have been known for decades, so I would not expect an explosion of new stuff based on these reactions.
I wonder why Stille (organostannane compounds) was not selected instead of Negishi (organozinc) or Suzuki (organoborane).
Linked carbon atoms in a thin sheet (like 1 atom thick) that is extremely strong, lightweight, and very conductive. It could revolutionize aerospace materials, vehicles, and replace copper and silicon in electronics.
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http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/10/physics-nobel-honors-the-creative-use-of-adhesive-tape.ars