Skip to main content
Skip to navigation

Anecdotes for Chemistry Teachers: The Nobel Prize

No comments

The history and background of the Nobel prizes.

Downloads

The nobel prize podcast
Other, Size 17.37 mb
Anecdotes the nobel prize
PDF, Size 30.62 kb

No comments

Level

Use

Specification

Republic of Ireland
- Leaving Certificate
  - Chemistry
    - Option 1A: Additional industrial chemistry
      - 1A.1 GENERAL PRINCIPLES
        Social and Applied Aspects
        Awareness of the contributions of chemistry to society, e.g. provision of pure water, fuels, metals, medicines, detergents, enzymes, dyes, paints, semiconductors, liquid crystals and alternative materials, such as plastics, and synthetic fibres; increasi…

Related articles

Resource
Anecdotes: Aluminium

The story of the discovery of the Hall-Heroult process for purifying aluminium.
Resource
On This Day - Oct 14 : Alfred Nobel first patent

This patent was for the preparation of nitroglycerine, and was the first of his 355 patents. Nobel is most famous for the prizes carrying his name, awarded annually since 1901 for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.

No comments yet

You're not signed in.

Only registered users can comment on this article.

Register

More from Resources

Resource
Chromatography challenge | 16–18 years

By Andy Markwick

Explore analytical techniques and their applications with a chromatography investigation and research activity
Resource
Metallic bonding | Structure strip | 14–16

By Kristy Turner

Describe the metallic bonding model and explain how this leads to particular properties in metals, with this scaffolded writing activity
Resource
Ionic bonding | Structure strip | 14–16

By Kristy Turner

Understand the models and diagrams used to represent ionic bonding and their limitations, with this scaffolded writing activity