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Chemistry Nobel Awarded to 2 Scientists for Building Molecular Construction Tool

October 6, 2021
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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to two professors for developing a new tool for molecular construction that has helped pharmaceutical research and is also more environmentally friendly. “Building molecules is a difficult art,” the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said in a statement announcing the winners. “Benjamin List and David MacMillan…

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Paul Crutzen, Who Shared Nobel for Ozone Work, Has Died

January 28, 2021
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BERLIN—Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch scientist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work understanding the ozone hole and is credited with coining the term Anthropocene to describe the geological era shaped by mankind, has died. The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, where Crutzen was the director of atmospheric chemistry…

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Nobel Prize Winner Paul Crutzen Dies at 87

January 28, 2021
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Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch scientist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work understanding the ozone hole, has died. The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, where Crutzen was the director of atmospheric chemistry from 1980 until his retirement in 2000, confirmed that he died Thursday at the age of…

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