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What's NewThe What's New page contains information about recent developments on Department of Energy (DOE) Research and Development (R&D) Accomplishments, including additions of Database reports, Snapshots, Featured Topics, and other related topics of interest. It is divided into general categories: Recently Added Features , Recently Added Database Reports, and Recently Added Laureates.
Recently Added FeaturesAlan Heeger shared to 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ‘the discovery and development of conductive polymers’. This discovery took place in a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania where Heeger spent over 20 years teaching. It overturned the conventional wisdom that polymers could not conduct electricity and opened new research possibilities. [added 7/2013] David Gross shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". This "strong force" is 'the force that binds quarks together within protons and neutrons and keeps those particles together within the nucleus of an atom. The … strong force becomes weaker as the particles move closer together. It becomes stronger as they move apart, like a rubber band that is stretched. However, at distances greater than the size of a nucleus, the force has no effect.' (Edited excerpt from Two Win Nobel in Physics for Work Done at Princeton) [added 6/2013] Mario Molina shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone". In 1973, Molina's research led to the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) could deplete the ozone in the atmosphere. At the time of his discovery, CFCs were being used as refrigerants, in hair spray and aerosol deodorants, and in making plastic foams. Since 1987, almost 200 countries, including the United States, have signed a pledge agreeing to phase out the production and usage of CFCs. [added 5/2013] George Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 for "discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia". [added 4/2013] Recently Added Database Reports
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