The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/nobel_prize/)
On Oct. 4, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for their work in the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, which will allow for improved medical treatments and diagnoses among various other applications.
Former professor Hans Albrecht Bethe’s Nobel Prize medal — won in 1967 in Physics — will now be housed in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Carl A. Kroch Library.
The latest hype surrounding hot peppers is not some form of an internet challenge, but the latest Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
One of Cornell’s most prominent alumnae, Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, died on Monday night, a friend confirmed to the Associated Press. Morrison was a prize-winning author who penned eleven books, including Beloved and The Bluest Eye.
Richard Axel is slated to deliver a lecture on “Scents and Sensibility: Representations of the Olfactory World in the Brain” on Nov. 15.
Senior research associate Lawrence Kidder was elected as one of 155 new Fellows for the American Physical Society for “major contributions to the development of numerical relativity.”
Former Cornell Prof. Richard Thaler took home the prize in what was apparently an overdue win for the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences on Monday.
Prof. Saul Teukolsky, physics and astrophysics, and senior research associate Lawrence Kidder are members of LIGO, a collaborative project that studies gravitational waves. They ran comparison tests for the prize-winning research.