Sentences with phrase «winning chemist»

(Others, such as Nobel - winning chemist Richard Smalley, have pointed out how there's no easy alternative when it comes to energy density.)

95 The case for crop - based biofuels was further undermined when a team led by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize — winning chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, concluded that emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer used to grow crops such as corn and rapeseed for biofuel production can negate any net reductions of CO2 emissions from replacing fossil fuels with biofuels, thus making biofuels a threat to climate stability.

Many of you will have read the obituaries of the Nobel Prize - winning chemist Sherwood Rowland (Nature, BBC) who sadly died over the weekend.

He also wrote on constructivism and collaborated closely with scientists — including Nobel Prize winning chemist, John Kendrew — to help them create visual representations of their discoveries.

A famous study in partnership with Nobel Prize winning chemist Karl Barry Sharpless, and Harmuth Kolb, «Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions,» has been cited more than 10,000 times, according to Google Scholar.

M. G. Finn is a highly cited award - winning chemist.

u On 10 November 1971, Dr. Harold Urey, a Nobel prize - winning chemist and lunar scientist, stated «I do not know the origin of the moon, I'm not sure of my own or any other's models, I'd lay odds against any of the models proposed being correct.»

Each vial is marked with a page number corresponding to a notebook where Miller recorded an experiment undertaken with his adviser, the Nobel Prize - winning chemist Harold Urey.

The team of researchers, led by Nobel Prize - winning chemist John Polanyi, employed a combination of experiment and theory to discover that the position of the molecule on the catalytic surface is a key factor in determining the rate at which particular bonds break.

In the 1920s the Nobel Prize — winning chemist Fritz Haber dreamed of paying Germany's World War I reparations with gold sifted from seawater.

Decades ago the Nobel Prize — winning chemist was relegated to the fringes of medicine after championing the idea that vitamin C could combat a host of illnesses, including cancer.

«All three of these molecules are removed by the same process — reaction with hydroxyl,» a radical formed from water in the atmosphere, explains Nobel Prize - winning chemist F. Sherwood Rowland, who participated in the research.

In the early 1970s, the two - time Nobel Prize — winning chemist Linus Pauling proposed that high doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can act as an antioxidant to reduce cancer.

And a Nobel - prize winning chemist has publicized his findings that biofuels made from nitrogen - thirsty plants (like corn and canola) actually produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, because they release nitrous oxide during their production.

That's what Nobel Prize - winning chemist, Kary Mullis, wrote in his 1998 memoir, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field: «It's a mother spider that first gets you and she wants a hole in you that oozes and expands and doesn't ever heal.

They are the «lipid fraction» which contains the saturated fatty acids and the «non-lipid fraction» which has not been studied in - depth, says this award - winning Chemist who is the recipient of the Dr. C.L. de Silva Gold Medal Award - 2009 for «an outstanding research contribution done in any branch of Chemical Sciences during the last five years in Sri Lanka» offered by the Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon.

Nobel Prize - winning chemist Harold Urey, famous for his role in recreating the building blocks of life from inor - ganic matter, has been widely quoted that «all of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel that it is too complex to have evolved anywhere.»

So are obscure biological mutations, which odds are about 500 trillion to one, and which Nobel Prize winning chemists can not even figure out how it is possible.

Google Ernst - Georg Beck for a synoptic paper on 180 years of CO2 measurements in the atmosphere, some by Nobel prize winning chemists.

Not exact matches

Pennsylvania's 8th District Veteran Kevin Strouse squeaked out a win against chemist Shaughnessy Naughton on Tuesday to earn the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania's 8th District.

«We are quickly running out of time to prevent hugely dangerous, expensive, and perhaps unmanageable climate change,» wrote the report's authors, who include former U.N. Environment Programme chief Achim Steiner and Mexican chemist Mario Molina, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in discovering the threat that chlorofluorocarbon gases pose to the Earth's ozone layer.

Chalfie and Tsien, along with Osama Shimomura, an organic chemist and marine biologist, had won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

She, in turn, came to graduate school believing, on the basis of the awards she had won in high school, that she had the makings of an outstanding chemist.

So, what do particle physicist Helen Quinn, mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin, and chemist Ada Yonath — the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in that field in 45 years — have in common with each other and countless other women?

Hinshelwood's 1926 work, «Kinetics of Chemical Change,» became a classic and won him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry, along with Russian chemist Nikolay Semenov.

Ertl, a physical chemist at the Fritz - Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany, won for developing modern methods that reveal how chemical reactions take place on metals and other surfaces.

Halpern and Pope won grants for their project not only from the National Institute on Drug Abuse but also from Harvard Medical School and two private foundations that support research on psychedelics: the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and the Heffter Research Institute (named after the German chemist who isolated mescaline from peyote and discovered its psychoactive properties in the late 1800s).

Like the poet, microbes that make methane are taking chemists on a road less traveled: Of two competing ideas for how microbes make the main component of natural gas, the winning chemical reaction involves a molecule less favored by previous research, something called a methyl radical.

A Russian astrophysicist who pioneered the study of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background to learn more about the universe and an American chemist whose work led to the development of several new materials have won the Kyoto Prize from the Japanese Inamori Foundation.

The Science Bowl Education Program is an award - winning activity set up by Kim Jackson and Ike Ononye, who are both working dream jobs as chemists at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Like the poet, microbes that make methane are taking chemists on a road less traveled: Of two competing ideas for how microbes make the main component of natural gas, the winning chemical reaction involves a molecule less favored by previous research, something called a methyl radical.

The concept of the «Anthropocene» was originally suggested by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize winning atmospheric chemist who is also part of the «Anthropocene Working Group,» in the year 2000.

Andrew Ellington, a University of Texas at Austin chemist who wasn't involved in the study, told Quanta magazine that the artificial six - letter alphabet «seems to have won out» over the natural four - letter version.

My Oxford University professor, the distinguished physical chemist Michael Polanyi, told me that during his career, during which he produced a number of students who won Nobel Prizes, scientific apparatus was inexpensive.

In 2017 she won the NWO Athena price, which rewards excellent female chemists who act as a role model for other researchers.

Your guide is Professor Ron B. Davis, Jr., a research chemist and award - winning teacher at Georgetown University.

Tour was ranked one of the Top 10 chemists in the world over the past decade, by a Thomson Reuters citations per publication index survey, 2009; won the Distinguished Alumni Award, Purdue University, 2009 and the Houston Technology Center's Nanotechnology Award in 2009.

The first African American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, scientific inventor Percy Lavon Julian won acclaim for his landmark work synthesizing human hormones — and his civil rights contributions.

This is the idea behind the Anthropocene, a new epoch in Earth history proposed by the Nobel Prize - winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen just 15 years ago.

Throughout the training, participants had the opportunity to learn from renowned speakers, such as chemist Dr. Mario Molina, who was the first Mexico - born person to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995.

Once considered fringe science, geoengineering gained respectability with an essay two years ago by chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who is something of an environmentalist hero — it was his Nobel Prize — winning work on the ozone hole that led to the ban on Freon and other ozone - destroying chemicals.

Paul Crutzen, the Dutch atmospheric chemist who won a Nobel for his work on ozone depletion, coined the term «Anthropocene» ten years ago.

-- UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award - winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

A scientific journal, Climatic Change, published a series of papers on the subject in August, including one by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel - prize - winning atmospheric chemist.