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Nobel Prize in chemistry set to be awarded in Stockholm
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the Nobel Prize in chemistry…
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Sleep, appetite, gene-editing experts contend for Nobel chemistry prize
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Research into molecules that regulate sleep and appetite or methods for editing genes could be among the contenders for the Nobel Prize in chemistry, to be announced Wednesday, commentators say.
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- Reported by Phys.org and published Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:00:01 UTC.
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Nobel winner Halzen says years of October 'misery' finally over
Sleep, appetite, gene-editing experts contend for Nobel chemistry prize
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Nobel winner Halzen says years of October 'misery' finally over
Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades—but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag the biggest award of them all left him "miserable," he admits.
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