The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 to:
Eric Betzig
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA,
Stefan W. Hell
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
William E. Moerner
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”
Getting ready for the Chemistry Announcement on Wednesday!
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was divided, one half awarded to John O’Keefe, the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”.
American Association of Chemistry Teachers
The American Association for Chemistry Teachers new website is: www.teachchemistry.org
Check it out today and join.
Here is Celebrating Chemistry “The Sweet Side of Chemistry: Candy!” Check out page 11.
Click here for the pdf: http://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/outreach/ncw/celebratingchemistry/ncw-2014-celebrating-chemistry-english.pdf
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I can win an iPad for my class. UPDATE: I won!!!!!
Come on out to the high school teacher day in San Francisco CA on August 10
Why STEM? Why American Chemical Society’s new national organization: American Association of Chemistry Teachers?
Here is the link to the newspaper article about this year’s winners:
Here is the flyer and the application. Good luck!
