Nobel Prize in Chemistry: How protein discoveries benefit research at BASF

Computational protein design and protein structure prediction speed up day-to-day research

05-Dec-2024 - On December 10, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award this year’s Nobel Prizes in Stockholm, Sweden. The prizes for chemistry this year are all about proteins, considered the building blocks of life. David Baker (University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design and for protein structure prediction

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about pro­teins, life’s ingenious chemical tools

09-Oct-2024 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 with one half to David Baker (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind, London, UK) John M. Jumper ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots

Three US scientists planted an important seed for nanotechnology - we have just started exploring the potential of these tiny particles

04-Oct-2023 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to Moungi G. Bawendi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA), Louis E. Brus (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA) and Alexei I. Ekimov (Nanocrystals Technology Inc., New York, ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry

Nobel Prize goes to a trio of researchers from the USA and Denmark

05-Oct-2022 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 to Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Stanford University, CA, USA), Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and K. Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA) “for the development of click ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

An ingenious tool for building molecules

06-Oct-2021 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 to Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany and David W.C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. Building ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 “for the development of a method for genome editing”

Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life

07-Oct-2020 - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This technology has had a revolutionary impact ...

Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2019 for the development of lithium-ion batteries

09-Oct-2019 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 to John B. Goodenough (The University of Texas at Austin, USA), M. Stanley Whittingham (Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA) and Akira Yoshino (Asahi Kasei Corporation, Tokyo, Japan ...

Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018 announced

Appreciation of the research in directed evolution and manipulation of enzymes and antibodies

04-Oct-2018 - The researchers Frances H. Arnold and George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter were announced as this year's winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Their achievements in the directed evolution in enzymes and the use of phage-display to produce antibodies was groundbreaking and worthy of the Nobel ...

The Nobel Prize Winners 2017

Internal clock, gravitational waves and cold analysis

04-Oct-2017 - This year's Nobel Prizes were awarded to a total of nine scientists. The research areas that have been awarded and the prize winners at a glance: Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to the ...

Cool microscope technology revolutionises biochemistry

04-Oct-2017 - We may soon have detailed images of life’s complex machineries in atomic resolution. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the development of cryo-electron microscopy, which both simplifies and improves the imaging of ...