Prized Science 2014: Ep. 2 “Making the world's most dreaded undergrad course fun"
Organic chemistry: It’s among the most feared courses undergraduate science students take. Whether you call it “orgo” or “o-chem,” it has reduced many...
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives more than 60 national awards to honor accomplishments in chemistry and service to chemistry. Prized Science strives to give people who may have no special scientific knowledge, the opportunity to watch, listen, and discover how the chemistry behind ACS’ awards transforms life for the better.
Prized Science 2014: Ep. 1 “Stephen J. Lippard - Winner of the 2014 Priestley Medal"
Stephen J. Lippard is the winner of the 2014 American Chemical Society Priestley Medal, the highest honor given by ACS. Lippard helped create the fiel...
Prized Science 2013: Episode 6 "Esther S. Takeuchi: Building life-saving batteries"
The engineering feat that enables a device to jolt a dangerously misbehaving heart back to its normal rhythm and save millions of lives is featured in...
Prized Science 2013: Episode 5 "Isiah Warner: New Orleans Nanotech - "GUMBOS" promise new drugs and electronics"
A group of nanoparticles called “GUMBOS” is as varied as their culinary namesake implies, with a wide range of potential applications from cancer ther...
Prized Science 2013: Episode 4 "Shirley O. Corriher: Chemistry and Cooking"
One of Shirley O. Corriher’s first lessons on how chemistry meets cooking came in the form of scrambled eggs stuck to a frying pan. That experience se...
Prized Science 2013: Episode 3 "Greg Robinson: Chemical Detectives - Preparing New Matter in the Universe"
Imagine creating something completely new — something improbable and provocative that has never existed on Earth before. This kind of unconventional s...
Prized Science 2013: Episode 2 - Tim Swager: The World's Most Sensitive Bomb Detector
Tim M. Swager is the 2013 winner of the ACS Award for Creative Invention for his work on the world’s most sensitive explosive detector to date. Known ...
Prized Science 2013: Episode 1 - Peter Stang: Building Molecules
Peter Stang is the winner of the 2013 American Chemical Society Priestley Medal, the highest honor given by ACS, for his work building new molecules v...
Prized Science 2012: Episode 5 - Peter Wolynes: Untangling Protein Folding
Peter Wolynes, winner of the 2012 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry, spent his career untangling the process of protein folding and discovered a pro...
Prized Science 2012: Episode 4 - Diane Bunce: Training the Next Generation of Scientists
This episode features celebrated chemistry professor Diane Bunce, winner of the ACS George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education. When Bunce isn't ...