A chemistry Nobel for crystals that absorb other chemicals
IF YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT of the Nobel prize in physics—for developments in quantum mechanics that helped give birth to quantum computers—was greeted with general bafflement, today Sweden’s Royal Academy of Science was taking no chances. The chemistry committee arrived in the portrait-laden press room heavily armed with metaphors, analogies and examples of practical applications.
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