Chemistry

Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences

May 14, 2009

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced that George M. Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has won the inaugural Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.

Kou is shaking up the world of statistics

By Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office / February 12, 2009

Harvard statistics professor Samuel Kou, now 34, grew up in Lanzhou, a city in China’s mountainous northwest near the border with Inner Mongolia. The altitude there is higher than Denver’s storied mile, and earthquakes rumble through town several times a year.

NYU chemist Robert Shapiro decries RNA-first possibility

By Alvin Powell, Harvard News Office / October 23, 2008

Back in the depths of time, an event almost miraculously improbable happened, creating a long, unlikely molecule. And life arose on Earth. Or, if you prefer, back in the depths of time, in a soup of small, relatively common molecules, an unknown chemical reaction occurred, sustained itself, replicated … and life arose on Earth.

Nanowire makes own electricity

By Alvin Powell, Harvard News Office / October 18, 2007

Harvard chemists have built a new wire out of photosensitive materials that is hundreds of times smaller than a human hair. The wire not only carries electricity to be used in vanishingly small circuits, but generates power as well.