"I have the distinction of being the only chemistry laureate who failed the topic in high school!"
– Tomas Lindahl, awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Who will receive the prize this year? Find out in October: nobelprize.org/prizes/about/p…
- "I have the distinction of being the only chemistry laureate who failed the topic in high school!" – Tomas Lindahl, awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Who will receive the prize this year? Find out in October: nobelprize.org/prizes/about/p��
Failed chemistry in school. Won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A perfect reminder that a grade measures one moment not your scientific potential. Now the question is who’s next?
Lindahl proves that failing in high school does not predict genius. Chemical reactions are, at a fundamental level, physical phenomena dictated by electron spin and the selectivity of singlet and triplet positions. Chemistry is applied physics. But physics itself is only a
So cool…I have something in common with a Nobel Prize winner (I failed chemistry in high school, too.)
