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Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2014


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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/

 

"Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy".

 

I don't know I'd call that chemistry, but congratulations nonetheless!

 

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/advanced-chemistryprize2014.pdf

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More like I'm secretly glad it wasn't given to a biologist for the 5th time in the last ten years.

 

To be fair, there is not even a prize for biology. We do have to poach what we can, just as in real life (although were there so many biologists? I thought they were biochemists, the bastard children that no one really loves).

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To be fair, there is not even a prize for biology. We do have to poach what we can, just as in real life (although were there so many biologists? I thought they were biochemists, the bastard children that no one really loves).

I always thought it strange that there was a prize for medicine and not for biology. Especially when many see physics, chemistry, and biology as "the big three" from which other sciences are derived.

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To be fair, there is not even a prize for biology. We do have to poach what we can, just as in real life (although were there so many biologists? I thought they were biochemists, the bastard children that no one really loves).

I've always thrown them in the biology basket myself, but that's only because almost all of the biochemists I've ever met have baulked at the very sight of a periodic table.

 

From memory, the last 10 years have been for GFP, metathesis, ribosomes, some kind of cell related thing, quasicrystals, palladium chemistry, another biology one from 2004 that I forget, something about surface chemistry, GPCR's, whatever it was last year (it was for something that was actually chemistry) and now this. So, 4/11 were for actual chemistry and the rest were biology, physics and whatever the heck quasicrystals are.

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Well, I throw them in the chemistry bin because they know next to nothing about cellular complexity or physiology or typically the function of more than a handful of molecules outside of a tube. Hence the bastard children comment (though one should add that most biochem groups are part of chemistry departments, so they are all yours. Keep them).

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Actually it is the no-one likes biochemists (despite being useful chaps) game. You know, the last kid to choose for dodgeball. I would feel sorry for them, if they did not get all the funding for the molecular biology area.

Also, I have earned the right to mock them, as I have worked in Chem&Biochem departments for quite a while.

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