What’s new on Chemstuff!
There have been many updates to Chemstuff over the past couple of months. Some of the highlights include… Major updates to the Year 7, Year 8 & Year 9 pages to reflect the changes in […]
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
This year’s Nobel prize for chemistry has just been announced. The Nobel prize is an award for a piece of research or work over a period of time which has changed the way scientists think about their […]
Daniel Rutherford
A year ago today I published a post on Alfred Werner, a Swiss Chemist who won a Nobel Prize for work relating to coordination numbers. Alfred Werner died on 15th November 1919. The 15th of […]
Marie Curie
On Monday 7th November 2011 Google honoured Marie Curie’s 144th birthday with a doodle. Marie Curie was born in Poland on November the 7th 1867 to Bronisława and Władysław Skłodowski. Her nationality was very important […]
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Dan Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals. Of course our friends over at the periodic table of videos have produced a fantastic explanation of the slightly complicated prize […]
Alfred Werner
On the 15th November 1959 the modern Olympic games was first revived in Athens, in 1974 Intel released the world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004 and in 1977, 4 years and a day after […]
Nobel Prizes 2010
So we heard today that the British pioneer behind the first test tube baby (IVF) has been given the Nobel prize for medicine 2010, on Wednesday (6th October, 9:45 a.m. GMT, at the earliest) the prize […]
