Nobel prizes
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to the two scientists who discovered and refined the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing tool. This allows for relatively simple editing of genes and could revolutionize medicine, agriculture and other fields.
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose for his proof that black holes result from general relativity, and jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering the supermassive monster at the center of the Milky Way.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2020 has been awarded to a trio of scientists for their pioneering work concerning hepatitis C, first identifying the novel virus and then enabling testing methods and drugs that saved millions of lives.
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The world has seen some major scientific achievements in the last 10 years, as discoveries and developments decades in the making were finally realized. New Atlas rounds up five of the most ground-breaking, history-making milestones of the 2010s.
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In 2016, the Nobel Prize of John Forbes Nash Junior went to auction with an official estimate of US$2.5 million to $4.0 million and even higher expectations, but failed to make reserve and was passed in. Now the medal is heading to auction again.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for the invention and development of the lithium-ion battery.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes three scientists for improving our understanding of the universe's history and Earth's place in the cosmos.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for uncovering how cells adapt to low oxygen.
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ScienceThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who tapped into evolution to produce vital chemicals. It was awarded to Frances H. Arnold for directing the evolution of enzymes, and to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter, who manipulated phages to create new antibodies.
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists: Arthur Ashkin for developing optical tweezers, and Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, for designing a method to generate high-intensity, ultra-short laser pulses.
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo, for their efforts in the development of cancer immunotherapy. In the 1990s, the two Laureates independently developed ways to lift the brakes on the immune system to help fight cancer.
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The 2015 detection of gravitational waves is one of the most important scientific discoveries in a century. It’s no surprise then that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to scientists at the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration, for that groundbreaking discovery.
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