pic.twitter.com/xwoThkOpn8 — The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 4, 2017By freezing biomolecules mid-movement, scientists can unravel previously unseen processes - a major advance both for basic understanding and the potential development of new drugs. The names of Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson are displayed on the screen during the announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 4, 2017. I thought the chances of winning a Nobel prize were miniscule." Chemistry is the third of this year's Nobel Prizes after the winners of the medicine and physics prizes were announced earlier this week. While the chemistry award has sometimes been overshadowed by the towering reputations of physics winners such as Albert Einstein, laureates include ground-breaking scientists such as radioactivity pioneers Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie, though she also won the physics prize.

Source: bd News24 October 04, 2017 09:56 UTC