Abstract
Every October brings complaints that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to research that isn’t truly chemistry. A new analysis suggests that the chemistry prize is, in fact, increasingly awarded to research better described as biochemistry or life sciences. To refocus the prize on what the researchers describe as chemistry and have it continue to recognize the top science in related disciplines, they suggest changes to the awards, including adding new topical prizes, allowing posthumous awards, and diversifying the committee that chooses the laureates (Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2019, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201906266). In the new study, Jeffrey I. Seeman of the University of Richmond and Guillermo Restrepo of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences used bibliographic data to make a case that chemistry and biochemistry are related but separate disciplines, a conclusion that echoes others’ research. They analyzed every paper published in 2007 in the journals
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