The Nobel Prize Winners were announced over the past week. James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the physics prize for work on physical cosmology (Peebles) and discovery of the first planet outside our solar system (Mayor and Queloz). William Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza won the physiology or medicine prize for studying how our cells respond to oxygen. The one I've been thinking most about though is the prize in chemistry, awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Nobel Complications