Nobel Prize Chemistry 2007

This year’s nobel prize in chemistry goes to Gerhard Ertl who did fundamental research on chemistry at solid surfaces.

This year it seems to be the year of “nobel prizes only go to people born in the 1920s and 30s.”

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Nobel Prize Physics 2007

…and the Nobel prize in physics for the year 2007 goes to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg; both discovered “Giant Magnetoresistance,” independently and almost at the same time — Grünberg was a bit faster with filing the patent.

I don’t really have the background to explain this effect in detail, but as much as I have […]

Laws of Thermodynamics

Sometimes it helps to actually read a blog via its web page… found at the bottom (is it my browser or is this the easter egg?) of Carbon based curiosities:

You cannot win. You cannot break even. You cannot stop playing the game.

Written by whom? I know there […]

Carbon nanotubes

Carbon Nanotubes, as cool and hype as its name suggests, are rather old and part of human technology (And we thought Carbon Nano Tubes were new….) — and definitely in the universe per se. Nevertheless the original discovery of non-planar graphite-derived 3D-shaped molecules was a major breakthrough and lead to a nobel prize in chemistry […]