Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
israel socratus said:
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries,
is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …” /
Isaac Asimov /
If you bothered to read what other people post here you'd know that
Jillery has given this quotation many times.
I haven't managed to read a copy of Asimov's book on biochemistry, but
I suspect I'd find it very old-fashioned. He never did any research in biochemistry worth a damn.
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COMMENTS ON POPULATION ISSUES, BY NOBEL LAUREATES IN CHEMISTRY, IF ANY:
1901 Jacobus van 't Hoff (1852–1911)
1902 Hermann Fischer (1852–1919)
1903 Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927)
1904 Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916)
1905 Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917)
1906 Henri Moissan (1852–1907)
1907 Eduard Buchner (1860–1917)
1908 Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
1909 Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932) In 1911, Ostwald became President of the Deutscher
Monistenbund (Monist Association), founded by Ernst Haeckel.[45] Ostwald (and other
Monists) promoted eugenics and euthanasia, but only as voluntary choices with the
intention of preventing suffering. Monist promotion of such ideas is suggested to
have indirectly facilitated acceptance of the later Social Darwinism of the National
Socialists. Ostwald died before the Nazis adopted and enforced the use of eugenics
and euthanasia as involuntary government policies, to support their racist ideological
positions.[43][3] Ostwald's Monism also influenced Carl G. Jung's identification of
psychological types.[46]
1910 Otto Wallach (1847–1931)
1911 Marie Curie, née Skłodowska (1867–1934)
1912 Victor Grignard (1871–1935) During World War I he studied chemical warfare agents
with Georges Urbain at Sorbonne University, particularly the manufacture of phosgene
and the detection of mustard gas.[5]
1912 Paul Sabatier (1854–1941)
1913 Alfred Werner (1866–1919) In his last year, he suffered from a general, progressive,
degenerative arteriosclerosis, especially of the brain, aggravated by years of excessive
drinking and overwork. He died in a psychiatric hospital in Zurich.[3]
1914 Theodore Richards (1868–1928)
1915 Richard Willstätter (1872–1942)
1916 Not awarded
1917 Not awarded
1918 Fritz Haber (1868–1934)
1919 Not awarded
1920 Walther Nernst (1864–1941)
1921 Frederick Soddy (1877–1956)
1922 Francis Aston (1877–1945)
1923 Fritz Pregl (1869–1930)
1924 Not awarded
1925 Richard Zsigmondy (1865–1929)
1926 Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971)
1927 Heinrich Wieland (1877–1957)
1928 Adolf Windaus (1876–1959)
1929 Arthur Harden (1865–1940)
1929 Hans von Euler-Chelpin(1873–1964)
1930 Hans Fischer (1881–1945)
1931 Carl Bosch (1874–1940)
1931 Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949)
1932 Irving Langmuir (1881–1957)
1933 Not awarded
1934 Harold C. Urey (1893–1981)
1935 Frédéric Joliot (1900–1958)
1935 Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956)
1936 Peter Debye (1884–1966)
1937 Walter Haworth (1883–1950)
1937 Paul Karrer (1889–1971)
1938 Richard Kuhn (1900–1967)
1939 Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995)
1939 Leopold Ružička (1887–1976)
1940 Not awarded
1941 Not awarded
1942 Not awarded
1943 George de Hevesy (1885–1966)
1944 Otto Hahn (1879–1968)
1945 Artturi Virtanen (1895–1973)
1946 James Sumner (1887–1955)
1946 John Northrop (1891–1987)
1946 Wendell Stanley (1904–1971)
1947 Sir Robert Robinson (1886–1975)
1948 Arne Tiselius (1902–1971)
1949 William Giauque (1895–1982)
1950 Otto Diels (1876–1954)
1950 Kurt Alder (1902–1958)
1951 Edwin McMillan (1907–1991)
1951 Glenn Seaborg (1912–1999)
1952 Archer Martin (1910–2002)
1952 Richard Synge (1914–1994)
1953 Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965)
1954 Linus Pauling (1901–1994) Pauling supported a limited form of eugenics by suggesting
that human carriers of defective genes be given a compulsory visible mark – such as a
forehead tattoo – to discourage potential mates with the same defect, in order to reduce
the number of babies with diseases such as sickle cell anemia.[128][129]
1955 Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978)
1956 Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1897–1967)
1956 Nikolay Semenov (1896–1986)
1957 Lord Alexander Todd (1907–1997)
1958 Frederick Sanger (1918–2013)
1959 Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967)
1960 Willard Libby (1908–1980)
1961 Melvin Calvin (1911–1997)
1962 Max Perutz (1914–2002)
1962 John Kendrew (1917–1997)
1963 Karl Ziegler (1898–1973)
1963 Giulio Natta (1903–1979)
1964 Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994)
1965 Robert Woodward (1917–1979)
1966 Robert Mulliken (1896–1986)
1967 Manfred Eigen (1927–2019)
1967 Ronald Norrish (1897–1978)
1967 George Porter (1920–2002)
1968 Lars Onsager (1903–1976)
1969 Derek Barton (1918–1998)
1969 Odd Hassel (1897–1981)
1970 Luis Leloir (1906–1987)
1971 Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999)
1972 Christian Anfinsen (1916–1995)
1972 Stanford Moore (1913–1982)
1972 William H. Stein (1911–1980)
1973 Ernst Fischer (1918–2007)
1973 Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996)
1974 Paul J. Flory (1910–1985)
1975 John Cornforth (1917–2013)
1975 Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998)
1976 William N. Lipscomb (1919–2011)
1977 Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003)
1978 Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992)
1979 Herbert C. Brown (1912–2004)
1979 Georg Wittig(1897–1987)
1980 Paul Berg (1926–2023)
1980 Frederick Sanger (1918–2013)
1981 Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998)
1981 Roald Hoffmann (b. 1937)
1982 Aaron Klug (1926–2018)
1983 Henry Taube (1915–2005)
1984 Robert Merrifield (1921–2006)
1985 Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011)
1985 Jerome Karle (1918–2013)
1986 Dudley R. Herschbach (b. 1932)
1986 Yuan T. Lee (b. 1936) In 2010, Lee said that global warming would be much more
serious than scientists previously thought, and that Taiwanese people needed to cut
their per-capita carbon emissions from the current 12 tons per year to just three.
This would take more than a few slogans, turning off the lights for one hour, or
cutting meat consumption, noting: "We will have to learn to live the simple lives
of our ancestors." Without such efforts, he said, "Taiwanese will be unable to survive long into the future".[9]
1986 John C. Polanyi(b. 1929)
1987 Donald J. Cram (1919–2001)
1987 Jean-Marie Lehn (b. 1939)
1987 Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989)
1988 Johann Deisenhofer (b. 1943)
1988 Robert Huber (b. 1937)
1988 Hartmut Michel (b. 1948)
1989 Sidney Altman (1939–2022)
1989 Thomas Cech (b. 1947)
1990 Elias J. Corey (b. 1928)
1991 Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021)
1992 Rudolph A. Marcus (b. 1923)
1993 Kary B. Mullis (1944–2019)
1993 Michael Smith (1932–2000)
1994 George A. Olah (1927–2017)
1995 Paul J. Crutzen (1933–2021)
1995 Mario J. Molina (1943–2020)
1995 Frank S. Rowland(1927–2012)
1996 Robert F. Curl Jr. (1933–2022)
1996 Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939–2016)
1996 Richard E. Smalley (1943–2005) Starting in the late 1990s, Smalley advocated for
the need for cheap, clean energy, which he described as the number one problem facing
humanity in the 21st century. He described what he called "The Terawatt Challenge",
the need to develop a new power source capable of increasing "our energy output by a
minimum factor of two, the generally agreed-upon number, certainly by the middle of
the century, but preferably well before that."[29][30] He also presented a list entitled
"Top Ten Problems of Humanity for Next 50 Years".[29][31] It can be interesting to compare
his list, in order of priority, to the Ten Threats formulated by the U.N.'s High Level
Threat Panel in 2004. Smalley's list, in order of priority, was:
ENERGY, WATER, FOOD, ENVIRONMENT, POVERTY, TERRORISM & WAR, DISEASE, EDUCATION, DEMOCRACY, POPULATION [29]
Smalley regarded several problems as interlinked: the lack of people entering the fields
of science and engineering, the need for an alternative to fossil fuels, and the need to
address global warming.[29] He felt that improved science education was essential, and
strove to encourage young students to consider careers in science. His slogan for this
effort was "Be a scientist, save the world."[32]
1997 Paul D. Boyer (1918–2018)
1997 John E. Walker (b. 1941)
1997 Jens C. Skou (1918–2018)
1998 Walter Kohn (1923–2016)
1998 John A. Pople(1925–2004)
1999 Ahmed Zewail (1946–2016)
2000 Alan J. Heeger (b. 1936)
2000 Alan G. MacDiarmid (1927–2007)
2000 Hideki Shirakawa (b. 1936)
2001 William S. Knowles (1917–2012)
2001 Ryōji Noyori (b. 1938)
2001 K. Barry Sharpless (b. 1941)
2002 John B. Fenn (1917–2010)
2002 Koichi Tanaka (b. 1959)
2002 Kurt Wüthrich (b. 1938)
2003 Peter Agre (b. 1949) He has said that he admired Linus Pauling, another Nobel laureate and peace activist.[54]
2003 Roderick MacKinnon (b. 1956)
2004 Aaron Ciechanover (b. 1947)
2004 Avram Hershko (b. 1937)
2004 Irwin Rose (1926–2015)
2005 Yves Chauvin (1930–2015)
2005 Robert H. Grubbs (1942–2021)
2005 Richard R. Schrock (b. 1945)
2006 Roger D. Kornberg (b. 1947)
2007 Gerhard Ertl (b. 1936)
2008 Osamu Shimomura (1928–2018)
2008 Martin Chalfie (b. 1947)
2008 Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016)
2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (b. 1952)
2009 Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018)
2009 Ada E. Yonath (b. 1939)
2010 Richard F. Heck (1931–2015)
2010 Ei-ichi Negishi (1935–2021)
2010 Akira Suzuki (b. 1930)
2011 Dan Shechtman (b. 1941)
2012 Robert Lefkowitz (b. 1943)
2012 Brian Kobilka (b. 1955)
2013 Martin Karplus (b. 1930)
2013 Michael Levitt (b. 1947)
2013 Arieh Warshel (b. 1940)
2014 Eric Betzig (b. 1960)
2014 Stefan W. Hell (b. 1962)
2014 William E. Moerner (b. 1953)
2015 Tomas Lindahl (b. 1938)
2015 Paul L. Modrich (b. 1946)
2015 Aziz Sancar (b. 1946)
2016 Jean-Pierre Sauvage (b. 1944)
2016 Fraser Stoddart (b. 1942)
2016 Ben Feringa (b. 1951)
2017 Jacques Dubochet (b. 1942)
2017 Joachim Frank (b. 1940)
2017 Richard Henderson (b. 1945) Outside academia, he lists his interests as hill walking
in Scotland, kayaking and drinking good wine.[3][8]
2018 Frances Arnold (b. 1956) Her hobbies include traveling, scuba diving, skiing,
dirt-bike riding, and hiking.[43]
2018 George Smith (b. 1941)
2018 Sir Gregory Winter (b. 1951)
2019 John B. Goodenough (1922–2023)
2019 M. Stanley Whittingham (b. 1941)
2019 Akira Yoshino (b. 1948)
2020 Emmanuelle Charpentier (b. 1968)
2020 Jennifer Doudna (b. 1964)
2021 Benjamin List (b. 1968)
2022 David MacMillan (b. 1968)
2022 Carolyn R. Bertozzi (b. 1966)
2022 Morten Meldal (b. 1954)
2022 K. Barry Sharpless (b. 1941)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry
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