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Undated portrait of Frederick Gardner Cottrell (Smithsonian)

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A native of Oakland, California, Frederick...Read more about Frederick Cottrell

How many newspaper stories, magazine features and TV segments have been produced so far that marvel at the revolutionary capabilities of CRISPR while giving almost no idea at all how the gene-editing discovery actually works? Those who lament the state of science journalism should take...Read more about 'Human Nature': film review

A potential solution to speeding up the diagnostics of coronavirus may have presented itself in the form of the gene editing molecular tool called CRISPR. Combined with high-scale advances in automation and computation, CRISPR promises to be a real game-changer in the field of synthetic...Read more about With its coronavirus rapid paper test strip, this CRISPR startup wants to help halt a pandemic

By Robert E. Connick, Rollie J. Myers, and Richard J. Saykally

William Dulaney Gwinn died from a...Read more about William Dulaney Gwinn

By W. F. Giauque, J. H. Hildebrand, and G. T. Seaborg

George Ernest Gibson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, November 9, 1884, the son...Read more about George Ernest Gibson

Chemistry Professor

By Paul A. Bartlett, Rollie J. Myers, and Andrew Streitwieser, Jr.

George Jura...Read more about George Jura

By George Jura, R. E. Connick, A. E. Hutson, and G. A. Somorjai

Shortly after the death of Professor...Read more about Richard Edward Powell

By C. Judson King, Simon L. Goren, and P. Henrik Wallman

With the death of Alan S. Foss on February 22, 2006, the University of...Read more about Alan Stuart Foss

By David E. Wemmer

Professor Rollie John Myers Jr. was born on July 15, 1924, in Hastings, Nebraska, where his father was also born, and passed away on...Read more about Rollie John Myers

A world leader in the field of physical chemistry, Charles Bonner Harris, former Chair of chemistry and Dean of the College of Chemistry at the UC Berkeley, and former Director of Chemical Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, passed away on March 10, 2020. His...Read more about In Memoriam Charles Bonner Harris Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus