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2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.

2013 #NobelPrize in #Chemistry:Martin Karplus  Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel – HARTL MISSES OUT

– Blue Lotus Science (@scienceupulie) October 9, 2013

2013 #NobelPrize #Chemistry the winners are theoretical chemists, so they get a look in this year

– Blue Lotus Science (@scienceupulie) October 9, 2013

2013 #NobelPrize #Chemistry Interesting, Karplus did a lot of work on NMR, an essential method for discovering structure

– Blue Lotus Science (@scienceupulie) October 9, 2013

2013 #NobelPrize #Chemistry So this is lovely. Warshel and Levitt have developed modelling and structure prediction methods for complex

– Blue Lotus Science (@scienceupulie) October 9, 2013

2013 #NobelPrize #Chemistry molecules, while Karplus did a huge amount of work on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

– Blue Lotus Science (@scienceupulie) October 9, 2013

Nobel Prize.org is 1:23 from the announcement.  Of course, yesterday was delayed.  

#NobelPrize It’s possible that some of the nano tech pioneers will be awarded tonight but yeah no clue really.

– Blue Lotus (@upulie) October 9, 2013

#NobelPrize Or Bruce Ames may take it.

– Blue Lotus (@upulie) October 9, 2013

#NobelPrize so @Sci_ents is going with a long shot prediction of Horwich and Ulrich Hartl for the Chemistry Prize

– Blue Lotus (@upulie) October 9, 2013

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#NobelPrize #Physics 2013 Prize goes to Peter Higgs Francois Englert

— Blue Lotus (@upulie) October 8, 2013

COMING UP: Announcement about 2013 #NobelPrize in #Physics is delayed until 12:15 pm at the earliest.

— Nobelprize_org (@Nobelprize_org) October 8, 2013

Did someone not answer their phone?  

Surpise! The Nobel for Physics goes to all of you, for your unceasing ability to obey its laws. Well done you.

— Ed Yong  (@edyong209) October 8, 2013

Ian Tracey is head of @CERN UK – he shared this photo of a panel being ignored because their audience was waiting for the Nobel announcement.  Which is delayed a bit longer.  

Best new hashtag is FakeNobelDelayReasons

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Early speculation is it will be Peter Higgs.  Or a combination of Higgs and the experimentalists at CERN.  Or a lot of people will be left out.  Or no one will be happy. There is concern about giving due credit, and not diluting the prize.  Etc.#twittersummary

@upulie shares some other possible contenders.  

#NobelPrize Other contenders for Prize: discovery of iron-based superconductivity, discovery of exoplanets

— Blue Lotus (@upulie) October 8, 2013

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#NobelPrize James Rothman (Yale), Randy Shekman (Berkeley), Thomas Südof (Standford)- American trifecta

– Blue Lotus (@upulie) October 7, 2013

Cellular Transport Mechanisms, basic science research.  

#NobelPrize The work demonstrated how cells organise transport and processing of excretory molecules

– Blue Lotus (@upulie) October 7, 2013

aww heck, just go read her twitter stream:  An enthusiastic scientist

And here’s the official site:  Nobel Prize dot org

Tomorrow is Physics.  

The GOP wants to excuse this based on the prevailing opinion that we need to reduce the deficit, but the whole thing is ridiculous. There are stupid cuts all over the place, but let’s get down to the science.  

While Waxman may have accused Republicans of presiding over the “most anti-science” Congress in history, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) tells Mother Jones that his colleague’s characterization doesn’t even go far enough: “This is the most anti-science body since the Catholic Church ostracized Galileo for determining that the earth revolves around the sun.”

Mother Jones, emphasis added

I wish it were possible to collect information about all the wrongdoing of the GOP into one diary, but even a series of books would probably find such an endeavor impossible. Even fully covering a specific topic is, realistically, far beyond the scope of any single diary. In trying to provide an aggregate summary of any currently relevant topic, the best I can give is a brief overview of the most recent and egregious Republican transgressions.

Today we address in brief (kind of) the GOP’s war on science.