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Sir Anthony Leggett obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/17/anthony-leggett-obituary #Physics #PeopleInScience #Science #NobelPrizes #UniversityOfSussex
Sir Anthony Leggett obituary

Physicist who won a Nobel prize for his work on superfluids and superconductors at Sussex University in the 1970s

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‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/21/nobel-laureate-omar-yaghi-invents-machine-that-harvests-water-from-dry-air #Water #ClimateCrisis #WorldNews #Environment #ExtremeWeather #NobelPrizes #Science #PeopleInScience #Chemistry
‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air

Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day

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Science | The GuardianFeb 19
Desmond McConnell obituary https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/feb/19/desmond-mcconnell-obituary #UniversityOfOxford #PeopleInScience #UniversityOfCambridge #Geology #Physics #Science
Desmond McConnell obituary

Other lives: Mineralogist who analysed samples of moon sand from the Apollo 11 mission

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Science | The GuardianNov 9
James Watson obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/09/james-watson-obituary #Scienceandnaturebooks #Historyofscience #Peopleinscience #Nobelprizes #Genetics #Biology #Science #Chicago #USnews #Books
James Watson obituary

Nobel prize-winning biologist whose discovery, with Francis Crick, of the structure of DNA solved the mystery of genetic inheritance

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Science | The GuardianOct 23
Darleane Hoffman obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/22/darleane-hoffman-obituary #Peopleinscience #Nuclearweapons #Nuclearwaste #Nuclearpower #Environment #Chemistry #Worldnews #Science
Darleane Hoffman obituary

Scientist whose research into transuranic elements revised the understanding of nuclear fission

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Science | The GuardianOct 22
Chen-Ning Yang obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/21/chen-ning-yang-obituary #Particlephysics #Peopleinscience #Scienceprizes #Nobelprizes #Physics #Science
Chen-Ning Yang obituary

Theoretical physicist who won the Nobel prize for his work on the forces acting on fundamental subatomic particles

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Science | The GuardianOct 9
Sir Peter Hirsch obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/09/sir-peter-hirsch-obituary #UniversityofCambridge #UniversityofOxford #Materialsscience #Peopleinscience #Education #Science
Sir Peter Hirsch obituary

Scientist who transformed the understanding of materials and redefined our knowledge of crystallography

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Science | The GuardianOct 9
All the news and science from the 2025 Nobel prizes – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2025/oct/08/all-the-news-and-science-from-the-2025-nobel-prizes-podcast #Peopleinscience #Scienceprizes #Nobelprizes #Chemistry #Worldnews #Science #Physics #Biology
All the news and science from the 2025 Nobel prizes – podcast

Madeleine Finlay talks to our science editor, Ian Sample, and correspondents Nicola Davis and Hannah Devlin about the winners of this year’s prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine

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Science | The GuardianOct 8
Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/07/scientist-learns-he-has-won-nobel-prize-while-on-digital-detox-in-us-mountains #Medicalresearch #Peopleinscience #Scienceprizes #Nobelprizes #Immunology #Science
Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband

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Science | The GuardianOct 6
Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/06/nobel-prize-medicine-awarded-scientists-immune-system-research #Peopleinscience #Medicalresearch #Scienceprizes #Nobelprizes #Worldnews #Science #Sweden #Europe
Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win for work on preventing immune system harming body

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