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Portraits of Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai are shown on the screen as they are awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2026. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP)
October 7, 2026, 4:00 pm
French Jewish chemist Henri Kagan, Japan’s Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize for solving ‘mirror image’ mystery
Chemistry award committee member calls work ‘coolest experiment’ in organic chemistry, a discovery hugely important for pharmaceutical manufacturing
By Agencies and ToI Staff
3D printed glass boat using the Hebrew University team's new technology. (Amir Reisinger)
September 30, 2025, 8:31 pm
Israeli researchers make breakthrough in glass 3D printing
While most 3D glass printing methods require energy-intensive use of chemical binders, Hebrew University team develops less wasteful process that uses light
By Sue Surkes
Johan Åqvist, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Permanent Secretary and Heiner Linke, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry award this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 9, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)
October 9, 2024, 4:44 pm
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientists who predicted proteins’ shapes using AI
David Baker, of Seattle’s University of Washington, produced ‘mind-blowing’ designs for novel proteins, using breakthrough tech by Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, John Jumper
By Daniel Niemann and Mike Corder
Herod’s calcite-alabaster bathtub found in Kypros fortress (Prof. Amos Frumkin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
May 17, 2022, 4:48 pm
Alabaster for Herod the Great’s lavish bathtubs traced to quarry in Israel
Daughter-father scientific study rules out Egyptian quarries and shows ancient Holy Land industry was potentially much more developed than previously thought
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Goran K Hansson, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, centre, announces the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 6, 2021. (Claudio Bresciani/TT New Agency via AP)
October 6, 2021, 6:02 pm
Chemists who discovered ‘greener’ way to build molecules win Nobel
Simple yet ‘ingenious’ method by David List and David W.C. MacMillan used to make everything from medicines to food flavorings
By david keyton and Frank Jordans
Guy Aon showing his photo developing technology that allows him to place photos on the body, in a kind of flexible body mask (Courtesy Guy Aon)
March 6, 2020, 4:18 pm
Need a Purim mask? Try one in 3D
Guy Aon created a printing method that can be used for face recognition systems, different identities, and, Purim masks
By Jessica Steinberg
George Rosenkranz, shown in 2004. (Douglas A. Lockard/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
June 25, 2019, 1:58 pm
George Rosenkranz, an inventor of the birth control pill, dies at 102
Chemist was born in Hungary and later escaped Nazis to Cuba; together with two others he synthesized progesterone and cortisone; also became a world-class bridge player
By JTA
Gas chamber at Stutthof (Courtesy)
April 21, 2019, 5:42 pm
Professor probed for asking students to calculate gas chamber dosages
Jeff Byers takes leave of absence from Vermont’s Middlebury College, apologizes for question on chemistry exam
By JTA
Alon Tal
April 19, 2017, 2:51 pm
Alon Tal
Freedom from fear in Haifa
Israeli scientists convinced the public of the risk of far more potentially explosive ammonia than the country uses
Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, left, receives the Nobel Prize in chemistry from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, right, at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. (AP Photo/Tobias Rostlund, Pool)
August 4, 2016, 11:24 pm
Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail dies at 70
Caltech professor and adviser to Obama was pioneer in monitoring chemical reactions, first US science envoy to Mideast
By AP
Members of the team representing Israel in the International Chemistry Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan July 30 2015. (R to L) Itai Zvieli, Ran Solan, Dr. Izena Nigel-Ettinger, Professor Zeev Gross, Roni Aaronson, and Nadav Ginnosar (Courtesy)
August 11, 2015, 3:51 pm
Israeli team wins 3 bronzes at veteran chemistry contest
International Chemistry Olympiad requires theoretical knowledge and practical skills
By David Shamah
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