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chemistry

UK woman dies after Novichok nerve agent poisoning – Expert Reaction

UK woman dies after Novichok nerve agent poisoning – Expert Reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 09 July 201820 August 2018

Wiltshire woman Dawn Sturgess has died eight days after becoming critically ill following poisoning by Novichok nerve agent.  Our friends […]

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Expert reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 09 October 2015

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Prof Tomas Lindahl of the Francis Crick Institute, jointly with […]

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Chemicals at Tianjin explosion site – expert reaction

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 18 August 201528 March 2016

The exact cause of the huge explosions that rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin remains a mystery for now, […]

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Chemistry Nobel awarded for super microscopes

In the News  |  Published: 10 October 201410 October 2014

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists responsible for the breaking the limits […]

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Nobel prize in chemistry – experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 11 October 201211 October 2012

Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka have been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the […]

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Nobel Prize for Chemistry – experts respond

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 06 October 201106 October 2011

Israeli physicist Daniel Shechtman was last night awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his discovery of “quasicrystals” in metals […]

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Dominion Post: All hail our mighty Kiwi chemists

Reflections on Science  |  Published: 17 January 2011

Bob Brockie writes, in an opinion piece in the Dominion Post, about chemists: New Zealand’s real genuises. He points out […]

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Sunday Star Times: Mysteries of our universe

Reflections on Science  |  Published: 13 December 2010

Adam Dudding writes in the Sunday Star Times about New Zealand scientist Peter Schwerdtfeger, who was recently awarded the prestigious […]

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