Secrets of Nobel Laureates

DOI: 10.1002/chemv.201800026
Author: Solveig Hock, ChemViews Magazine
Published Date: 01 April 2018
Copyright: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

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How well do you know Nobel Laureates?

Find out with this quiz featuring a few fun facts about three researchers who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Roald Hoffmann (1981), George A. Olah (1994), and Ben L. Feringa (2016).

Question 1 Secrets of Nobel Laureates

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an art historian.

Question 2 Secrets of NobelLaureates

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Teaching four generations of chemists to think using molecular orbits.

Question 3 Secrets of Nobel Laureates

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a load explosion.

Question 4 Secrets of Nobel Laureates

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Hans Meerwein.

Question 5 Secrets of Nobel Laureates

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a stir plate.

Question 6 Secrets of Nobel Laureates

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the design of a molecular motor.

References

Roald Hoffmann (Author Profile),
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 10984–10986.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201703735
George A. Olah (Author Profile),
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 8500.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201301116
Ben L. Feringa (Author Profile),
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 1470–1472.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201006997

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