nobel
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The making of a chemist
Richard Ernst won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1991 for his work on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy. Photo by Brooks Canaday. By the time he was 3 years old, Richard Ernst had not yet learned to speak his native language. His only way of communicating was through the…
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Why you should care about Tuesday's physics Nobel announcement
British physicist Peter Higgs (right) and Belgium physicist Francois Englert theorized the particle that the universe relies on for creating mass. Their efforts were honored today with the Nobel Prize in Physics. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP. As you’ve probably already heard, the Nobel committee announced that its award in physics this…