#Nobel Prize

Stories tagged “Nobel Prize” in the Weird Science History archive — 12 stories connected by this topic.

• The Chemist Who Caught His Landlady Recycling Dinner With a Pinch of Radioactivity
• The Jellyfish Extract Tossed Down a Lab Sink That Flashed Blue — and Lit Up Biology
• The Physicist Who Tried to Bottle a Mountain Fog — and Caught Subatomic Particles Instead
• The Obituary That Supposedly Created the Nobel Prize — and That Nobody Has Ever Found
• The Physicist Who Levitated a Frog — and Then Won a Real Nobel Prize
• The Chemist Who Fed the World and Gassed the Trenches
• The Corn Geneticist Who Saw Genes Jump — And Waited 32 Years to Be Believed
• The Doctor Who Drank a Beaker of Bacteria to Prove Ulcers Weren't Caused by Stress
• The Glow Across the Room That Let Us See Inside the Body
• The Graduate Student, the 'Little Green Men,' and the Nobel That Got Away
• The Pigeon Mess That Turned Out to Be the Echo of the Big Bang
• The Surgeon Who Threaded a Tube Into His Own Heart

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