POPA ReconTomorrow: the Nobel Peace Prize
Tomorrow: the Nobel Peace Prize Already awarded this year: Physiology or Medicine: K. Deisseroth, P. Hegemann, and G. Nagel — for optogenetics: a way to switch individual nerve cells in a living brain on and off with light. Physics: F. Halzen — for the IceCube observatory in Antarctica and the discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos from space (nearly invisible particles from distant processes). Chemistry: H. Kagan and K. Soai — for how reactions spontaneously produce “one-handed” molecules (mirror-image forms). This matters for drugs: living things use only one of the two mirror forms. L…
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