From the Explained editor: A week of Nobels, eye on China, and a tragedy in Africa
From the Nobel Prizes awarded this week to the India-made cough syrup that led to the death of 66 in Gambia, check out our best explainers through the week
(Clockwise) Chinese President Xi Jinping leading top officials pledging their vows to the party on screen during a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing; Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited factory in Sonepat district, Haryana; The winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are Carolyn R. Bertozzi (US), Morten Meldal (Denmark) and K Barry Sharpless (US); Svante Paabo, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dear Express Explained reader,
We have just completed a week of Nobel announcements, and the last honour, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — the so-called economics prize — will be announced tomorrow. Like every year, Amitabh Sinha wrote about the prizes, their winners, and the relevance of their achievements for the rest of us.
Do read Amitabh’s explainers on Svante Paabo, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, who is credited with developing methodologies to extract ‘clean’ DNA from human fossils thousands of years old and reading the genetic information they contain; Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger who were jointly awarded the Physics Nobel for their work on quantum entanglement; and Carolyn Bertozzi, Barry Sharpless, and Morten Meldal who have got the Chemistry Nobel for their researches on ‘click’ chemistry.
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