Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 – live blog

At 10.45 BST the Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced in Stockholm. Get the news first here, with reaction from the scientific community to follow 10.56am: From the twittersphere: @simon_frantz writes: When Daniel Shechtman made his qusaicrystal disc. he said to himself “Eyn chaya kazo”/”There can be no such creature” He adds: In the course of defending his findings, Shechtman was asked to leave his research group. 10.50am: From the Nobel committee material: When Daniel Shechtman entered the discovery awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 into his notebook, he jotted down three question marks next to it. The atoms in the crystal in front of him yielded a forbidden symmetry. It was just as impossible as a football – a sphere – made of only six-cornered polygons. Since then, mosaics with intriguing patterns and the golden ratio in mathematics and art have helped scientists to explain Shechtman’s bewildering observation. 10.48am: The prize has gone to Daniel Shechtman at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel ” for the discovery of quasicrystals ” 10.45am: Time to find out who is the Bob Dylan of chemistry… Here’s the live webcast of the announcement. 10.22: The last of the science Nobel prizes is announced today for contributions to chemistry. To complete our coverage of the week’s awards, we will be following events live here. We expect to have the name of the winner, or winners, by around 10.45am UK via the live-streaming video of the announcement from Stockholm which you can watch below. This has already been a fascinating year for the science Nobels, and not only for the breakthroughs and researchers the awards honoured. On Monday, the Nobel committee awarded the medicine prize to three researchers whose work on the immune system has opened up new avenues for tackling diseases. Unknown to the committee at the time, one of the recipients had died only days earlier. The prize stands . Yesterday, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three scientists who observed exploding stars in faraway galaxies and deduced that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. This striking and counterintuitive result introduced the concept of “dark energy”, a mysterious force that apparently drives the universe apart. While scientists applauded the award, the astronomer royal, Lord Rees, cautioned that in honouring only three people, the prize failed to recognise the work of the teams involved. So who will win the chemistry prize? The Washington Post

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 – live blog

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