"I think we, everyone of us, can always do more and do better." During his Nobel Prize lecture, this year's chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi spoke about one of his role models, Marie Skłodowska Curie. Yaghi has a portrait of Curie at his office to inspire and encourage his lab colleagues. Marie Skłodowska Curie was awarded two Nobel Prizes in two scientific categories, physics 1903 and chemistry 1911. She is still the only individual to receive two prizes in two different scientific categories. Wat

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University of Melbourne chemist Richard Robson has received his Nobel Prize in Sweden. Professor Robson, 88, was one of three scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in Stockholm this year. They were awarded for their groundbreaking work in “the development of metal-organic frameworks”. The discovery is capable of allowing water to be harvested from desert air, according to the Nobel Committee. He has been a lecturer and researcher at the university since 1966 and has been working on meta