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Moungi Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexey Ekimov are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on quantum dots.
2023-10-4

Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Karl Barry Sharpless, and Dane Morten P. Meldal are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".
2022-10-5

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing."
2020-10-7

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium ion batteries.
2019-10-9

The Nobel Committee awards Swiss Jacques Dubochet, German Joachim Frank, and British Richard Henderson the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structural determination of biomolecules in a solution.
2017-10-4

Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory find a way to make thinner electrical wires that measure just three atoms wide.
2016-12-26

Research, published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal "Nature Geoscience", confirms that Mercury's darker than expected crusty exterior is from carbon, likely the remains of the planet's ancient surface crust of graphite, rather than carbon dust from comet impacts as previously postulated.
2016-03-7

Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of ‘super-resolved fluorescence microscopy’.
2014-10-8

Frank Sherwood Rowland, the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for warning about the depletion of the ozone layer, dies in the US state of California.
2012-03-10

A joint team of British and US astronomers announce the discovery of Wasp 12b, a planet (1200 light years away) with an ultra-high concentration of carbon, and the first of its type.
2010-12-8