A batch of ten questions collected while making notes on subjects over an extended period of time because I can’t spend long on these subjects before my mind explodes. Some of these leave me seeking a word stronger than ‘masochism’.
Questions
Vienna-born Nazi collaborator Richard Kuhn had to initially reject his 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry that was awarded for his work on vitamins and which pigments? These are all derivatives of tetraterpenes and contain 40 carbon atoms, with them being prevalent in the Vietnamese gâć fruit.
CAROTENOIDS
Like Richard Kuhn, Adolf Butenandt had to initially reject the Nobel Prize when it was awarded to him for Chemistry in 1939. The accolade came for his work on what two-word area?
SEX HORMONES
The discovery of which pheromone released by the female silkworm moth was Adolf Butenandt credited with in 1959, this being the first pheromone to be identified?
BOMBYKOL
Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, American Frances Arnold is a pioneer in the use of what two-word term in order to engineer enzymes? It involves creating a pool of genes through mutagenesis, selecting those that have the desired traits, then amplifying them before the process loops round again.
DIRECTED EVOLUTION
Involving gene coding and forming a cycle, what word follows ‘phage’ in a laboratory technique for which American George P. Smith shared the 2018 Chemistry Nobel with Frances Arnold? It is particular useful for understanding the functionality of proteins.
DISPLAY
Sharing the 2018 Chemistry Nobel with Frances Arnold and George P. Smith, which Leicester-born molecular biologist is known for his work in humanising antibodies, trying to solve the problems encountered with reactions to the antibodies that had been derived from mice?
GREGORY WINTER
An important figure in the field of decision-making, which 1978 American Nobel Prize in Economics winner was responsible for the portmanteau ‘satisficing’, which involves searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is reached? This concept was first toyed with in the thrillingly titled “Administrative Behaviour”.
HERBERT SIMON
Although not a Nobel Prize winner despite multiple nominations, Édouard Branly, the physicist who ultimately found his name being used for the Jean Nouvel designed Musée de quai Branly, invented a ‘coherer’ that was used to detect what?
RADIO WAVES
A winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics, Simon Kuznets has an inverted-U shaped curve named for him that plots which two variables against each other?
INCOME INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Listed as an American when he won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics, Simon Kuznets was born in Pinsk, a city that now lies in the south of which modern day country?
BELARUS
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