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Jeanna Bryner
Let’s Talk Nobel…
The Nobel Prize Ceremony has come and gone. Here’s the notables who took home the awards!
- Medicine or Physiology: Yoshinori Ohsumi for discovery of “self-eating” cells.
- Physics: David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, J. Michael Kosterlitz for discovery of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. (1)
- Chemistry: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Bernard L. Feringa for designing and synthesizing molecular machines. (2)
Notes:
1: No. I don’t know what this means, either. According to the source I used it’s some weirdness having to do with how matter behaves.
2: This apparently involves chaining molecules together into units and then hitting them with some energy. Devices created included a motor and an artificial muscle.