The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is a moment to take stock of the achievements of materials science. Advanced Science News speaks to experts in the field for their thoughts.
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Nobel Prizes 2019: Chemistry
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino win the 2019 Chemistry Nobel Prize for the development of lithium-ion batteries
Nobel Prizes 2019: Physics
Prize awarded jointly to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”.
Nobel Prizes 2019: Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize for Medicine winners William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza “uncover a fundamental mechanism of life”.
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