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I got interested in how often the chemistry prize goes to biology/biochemistry. 2011: quasicrystals →2012: G protein-coupled receptors 2013: mode
by sampo 6y ago
I got interested in how often the chemistry prize goes to biology/biochemistry.
2011: quasicrystals
→2012: G protein-coupled receptors
2013: modelling complex chemical systems
2014: super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
→2015: studies of DNA repair
2016: molecular machines
2017: cryo-electron microscopy for biomolecules
→2018: directed evolution of proteins
2019: lithium ion batteries
→2020: genome editing
So let's say 4 out of 10 (2012, 2015, 2018, 2020). My initial assumption that biology would dominate was wrong, and the chemistry prize seems to have been going to very diverse topics in chemistry.
- divbzero 6y agoThe prizes in 2014 (fluorescence microscopy) and 2017 (cryo-electron microscopy) weren’t strictly for biology but were tools for studying biology. Including them would make it 6 out of 10.