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    Will the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry return to "traditional chemistry"?

    • Last Update: 2017-09-29
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    Not long ago, clarivate analytics released a list of 2017's citation laureates Since the first citation laureate award was issued in 2002, 43 Nobel laureates have been successfully predicted, so the award is considered as "the vane of Nobel Prize" From 17:30 on October 2, Beijing time, the Nobel Committee will successively announce the winners of 2017 awards Clarivate analytics, chemistry world, everyday scientistblog and other scientific data analysis service providers, popular science magazines and science blogs are predicting this year's Nobel Prize winners This is a very interesting activity before the Nobel Prize and has become a common topic in the scientific circle during this period What are the rules for predicting the Nobel Prize? The reason why people have a certain degree of trust in corewellian (formerly Thomson Reuters intellectual property and Technology Division) is that it predicts the most influential scientific researchers in the disciplines awarded by Nobel prize based on the quantitative analysis results of analysts based on the data of web of science Over the past 15 years, it has successfully predicted 43 Nobel laureates, the latest of which is J Fraser Stoddart, one of the 2016 Nobel Laureates in chemistry But the people who question it are based on the fact that as of this year, Kerui Wei'an has awarded more than 300 "citation laurels" If calculated with accuracy, the prediction results are obviously immature However, this does not prevent it from continuing this interesting work This year's citation laureate award has three award-winning researches in the field of Chemistry: the first one is awarded to Russian chemist georgiy shul'pin, American chemist John berkaw and Robert Bergman for their important contribution to the discovery of C-H functionalization; the second one is awarded to American Chemical Engineer Jens Norskov, whose theoretical and practical research on heterogeneous catalysis of solid surface materials has promoted the development of synthetic ammonia and fuel cell, was listed; the third item was awarded to Tsutomu Miyasaka in Japan, Nam Gyu Park in South Korea and Henry J Snaith in the UK, who won the prize for discovering and applying perovskite materials to achieve effective energy conversion Are interdisciplinary subjects more likely to win awards? In addition to institutional prediction, many popular science magazines and scientists also actively participate in this kind of scientific and entertaining "activity" to make science more interesting and friendly According to chemistry world, American physicochemicals Phaedon Avouris, Paul McEuen and Dutch physicist Cornelis Dekker has made great contributions to carbon based electronic products Although he has won the physics award of "citation laurel Award", his research involves the application of carbon nanotubes, graphene and nanoribbons in the field of electronics Therefore, Dekker may also be favored by the Nobel Prize in chemistry Scientists are more inclined to study the cross field of chemistry and biology Samuel Lord, a researcher at the University of California and a well-known science blogger, believes that the Nobel Prize in chemistry is likely to be awarded to Jennifer doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Feng Zhang, a Chinese scientist, who have done original work around CRISPR, a new generation of gene editing technology In addition, sigma Xi, a famous non-profit scientific organization in North America, listed Harry gray and Stephen Lippard, pioneers of bioinorganic chemistry, as strong competitors of this Chemistry Award Indeed, many of the Nobel Prize choices are based on the results of multidisciplinary integration Statistics show that over 40% of the research fields of the winners in the past century belong to cross science Especially after entering the new century, physics and biomedicine are connected; chemistry and molecular biology are combined In the past 15 years, about two-thirds of the chemistry awards have been awarded to the interdisciplinary fields of chemistry and biology In 2015, Richard John Roberts, a British biochemist and the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, the founder of the world's most complete nuclease database, published an interesting article He summed up 10 important "advice" to win the Nobel Prize: one of them is "learning biology" Return to "traditional chemistry"? The so-called "traditional chemistry", in the view of some researchers in the field of traditional chemistry, refers to molecular synthesis and chemical research related to molecular properties However, some people have made special statistics In the 21st century, there are more than 10 chemical awards related to biology, and only 6 chemical researches in the traditional sense such as organic chemistry Therefore, many researchers in the field of traditional chemistry make fun of the fact that every chemical award is "non-human", they call for the chemical award to "return to tradition" In fact, the chemistry prize can be said to be the "life prize" in the Nobel Prize Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, is a chemist himself Many of his inventions and achievements are based on chemical knowledge According to Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded to "the person who has made the most significant discovery or progress in the field of Chemistry" Now, it is 116 years since the Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901, and it will be the 109th time that the Nobel Prize in chemistry has been announced Last time, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry "returned" to "molecular machine", a proposition in the field of "supramolecular chemistry" This time, the research in the field of C-H bond activation and functionalization, which is regarded as the Holy Grail in the field of chemistry, can we win another Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "traditional chemistry"?
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