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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry includes famous winners such as Marie Curie and Otto Hahn. Here is a full list.

All Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

I suggest we build a Vigyan Mandir (Temple of Science) with the ambience of a place of worship, so that it becomes a destination for pilgrims. We should embed on its walls bronze plaques describing each scientist mentioned here along with about a dozen of our ancient mathematicians, recommends Professor Kalyan Singhal, historian of science and technology.

Turbulence trouble Illustration of Jupiters Great Red Spot. Credit: Mark Garlick / Getty Images. “When I meet God,” physicist Werner Heisenberg allegedly once said, “I’m going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he’ll have an answer for the first.” Although the quote is almost certainly fictional, it captures the sheer frustration many physicists feel about turbulence: the complex, chaotic, unpredictable flows in fluids. This phenomenon su...