Dan Shechtman

An image of the electron diffraction pattern of an icosahedral Zn-Mg-Ho quasicrystal. Credit: Jgmoxness/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

The Story of a Once-Unusual Material With a Still-Unusual Property

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa shared the chemistry prize for building mechanical devices like motors and lifts using molecules for parts. This is a representative image. Credit: ucdaviscoe/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

There’s Plenty of Room At the Bottom – the Nobel Chemistry Laureates Put a Nanocar There