The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Periodic Table of Videos

[@007bistromath]

Hey, Brady! Have you ever thought about just having a Nobel channel? It'd be interesting to go back through the history of the prizes to see which scientific discoveries changed things the most, or to examine how some categories have been politicized.

[@periodicvideos]

Sorry about the delay

[@TheZestrangelove]

I am a layman, a professional, a struggling man to be more. Keep it up, by all means and by any means. You inspire us to be greater then the sum of our own.

[@periodicvideos]

Hi Greg... working on that now for sixtysymbols

[@XXsardarXX]

Hey Brady, how about making a video about the late Prof. Frederick Sanger....the only British scientist to have won TWO Nobel Prizes for chemistry?

[@FrancoCiminoPrado]

This year I started working as a computational chemist in Hungary, my work is almost finish here and I'm going home next week. I got really exited when they announced the Nobel price because it's in a field that not too many people know about and not to many chemist go into it, but it's an amazing field.

[@TechLaboratories]

So glad to have experts in the subject interpreting the importance of these fantastic individual's work so that we can share in the excitement! Thank's Professor!

[@PeterPerhac]

i just love his "models", he's pulled so many different cat/dog/child toys... he never fails to surprise/amuse me

[@natpbs]

"And enormously dimplified view"- jumpcut to the professor holding sparkly stars attached to springs. I love this guys.

[@Botulinusthesia]

I believe we deserve an AMA with the professor.

[@saber1epee0]

It's been a while, Professor. It's good to have you back.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Big molecules only react at certain places at one time, so the new technique focuses the more-accurate quantum calculation on those smaller areas while using easier simplified calculations on the rest of the molecule. This makes it efficient enough to calculate interactions between larger particles than we could ever calculate before. Hope I've unscrambled your noodle :)

[@LetalisLatrodectus]

Don't sweat it Brady. Any video you make is a plus. I will gladly wait for them. Keep it up, the stuff you do is incredibly amazing!

[@navirow7637]

Periodic Videos should get a Nobel Peace prize for educating millions of viewer on the beauty of chemistry. PVFTW

[@mmxbass]

Brady, with all this talk about computationally complex operations, maybe this is a good time to do a Computerphile video about complexity classes and NP-completeness.

[@PooseV2]

I see your "What Einstein Told His Barber" up there! That book changed the way I think forever when I first started reading it as a child.

[@Swelly993]

"Enormously simplified way." Cut to sparkly stars on the ends of springs. This is why I love periodic videos :D

[@Postghost]

So it is,still even if that's too much of a hassle i was just kinda imagining a retort clamp holding a smartphone. Brady could still edit it asap from anywhere. Most of those cameras offer quite good video now.

[@avhuf]

Suggestion: do videos on chemistry nobel prizes from the past?

[@ragnkja]

I read the names of the winners the day the prize was announced, but I didn't understand anything about what it was for until today.

[@jacksonfriedman3537]

Why would people have a reason to dislike this... Why?

[@3kT0m0rF]

Our Professor for Anorganic Chemistry, Professor Dr. Tamm in Braunschweig, recomended your Channel in his lecture about a week ago....and i was like: YEAH! I know Professor Poliakoff already.... :D This semester is going to be awesome! ^^

[@09jamieboro]

He was at leeds uni chemistry today! Legend

[@Tulanir1]

The captions on these videos are actually really accurate!

[@ReignofRavens]

I use "folding@home" on my server to help calculate proteins for Stanford University. it seems similar to Martian Karplus's work

[@boo453]

comp chem is very specific to solving chemical problems within chemistry. quantum physics is much broader

[@SciencePlug]

Awesome. Very clear. Thank you!!

[@bitmaxim]

It would be interesting to hear the professor discuss Nobel Laureates from earlier years, too. Suggestion: Herbert C. Brown (Nobel Prize Winner in 1979)

[@thecassman]

I suggest you do some research into Alfred Nobel; or at the very least, the differences between the Nobel Peace Price and the other prizes.

[@TheLordHighNoob]

Drink every time the Professor says "So called"

[@Lauraphoid]

No problem!

[@CantBeTamed53]

Don't worry Brady. We still love you. xD

[@hypersapien]

Seeing the professor 'rather cross' must be a sight to see.

[@Postghost]

Its main use of "so-called" is to mean "commonly called", "incorrectly or falsely termed" is the secondary definition.

[@Chaosdude341]

I hope so.

[@csnowutube]

Spring theory?

[@voveve]

For me the Nobel in Chemistry was announced today.

[@8wealthyone8]

Very nice... Could you please do more regarding Gold, diamonds, etc. Thanks blesses Arek

[@vtnmraper]

Hmm but how about a playlist of older Nobel Prizes as well?

[@asumazilla]

The real chemistry prize only comes when you make the video explaining it.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Yes, you can. All you need are the designs, and if no one's designed it before, you can patent it. It doesn't have to work.

[@aserta]

Better late than never. And to be honest the quality and awesome content you put out is worth the wait.

[@TheTotalGeek]

Martyn and Brady, you are doing a terrific job. I learn something new with every episode and i really appreciate it. Cheers gents :)

[@Postghost]

Just tell the professor that, on behalf of his KZbin audience; that next time something like this happens,we're fine with just him rigging up any camera and speaking into it to be edited later, I wouldn't have cared if it was just a smartphone camera, it's only KZbin. It would be better to just get the footage on the compromise, rather than not at all. We watch this for the video content, not the quality.

[@THEWATERENERGY1]

Dear Professor ,May you did Hear of Stanley Meyer, May you did hear or reed About his Theoretical and Patented Findings !!! Are Those Findings not A Nobel Prize Awarded ??? Thanks For your Video´s we learn lot of them,...

[@GregLoutsenko]

i was waiting for this one, what about PHYSICS nobel??

[@h7oslo]

This is a very good series of vids! Thank you!

[@chewyshoey]

whose*

[@gnazkull]

I would love to see a video showing Martyn's model collection. Dog toys included.

[@sanguineel]

What did he do?

[@IMortage]

Good, I actually tried to avoid the Nobel news, because I didn't want to spoil your video. :)

[@Postghost]

In a world where just about everyone has a camera on them, and internet sharing exists, it should be quite easy to set up some contingency system.

[@Bvisionz]

ive got alot of time 4 all the vids on this channel.. keep them coming.. :)

[@riotbo]

'Soo much to know so little time'

[@blankreg2002]

That last few seconds Brady.. brilliant! :)

[@nacasius]

With that response being given to the young Michael Levitt, which seemed completely unfounded, do you think that young chemists today need worry about other old school prejudices?

[@xanokothe]

Hi prof.! If you are interested in QComputation, I'm a very good programmer, maybe with your knowledge we could make something very good! If you can identify areas which need attention, that would be great. Thanks

[@Nexus2Eden]

Thanks for clearing that up. I was a bit confused about that. I've regained my respect for the award now. :)

[@MigluGamer]

Next nobel for poliakoff

[@apburner1]

So, do you always take everything to the extreme or just on youtube?

[@CreamAle]

didnt this also open up the "folding" market?

[@roandrm2]

The ending was quite abrupt, it seemed though as if he had much more to say.

[@Uristdorf]

One day I will contribute to our knowledge of chemistry.

[@mqL49J]

"... enormously simplified view." cut to wobbling glittery stars

[@thewuurm]

Are you talking about the guy who supposedly invented a "fuel cell" that violated two laws of thermodynamics and was ruled to be fraudulent by an American court? Because if so, and even if his device worked (it didn't and it doesn't), nominations for the Nobel cannot be made posthumously - and Mr Meyer died in 1998.

[@TheJespersoderlund]

Actually the peace prize is awarded in Norway by a separate committee, but yes it's always been a bit strange. The committees that award the real sciences have no connection to the peace-prize one though.

[@rogerdotlee]

one that I'd rather pass on. I do believe he did one video where he looked really unhappy. I believe it was something about 'nasty chemicals', though don't quote me on that.

[@lekoman]

Ouch. That's pretty rough. I wish it wasn't edited... I feel like the other guy must have something to hide if he cut all his own commentary out. Even still... some of the things in that clip seem pretty unprofessional.

[@IceMetalPunk]

There's a repair shop down the road from my campus called "Evolution Auto Repair". I keep expecting a Ford to go in there, have many automotive children, and then for a fully automated flying car to zoom out weeks later...it hasn't happened yet :(

[@CookingWithCows]

I was standing in front of the royal society in london today but I didn't know what to do :P I did take a picture from the outside, but I didn't have the courage to go in because I didn't know if normal mortals are allowed there like that.

[@IceMetalPunk]

And people should want to do good and help others without any rewards, just out of the purity of their own hearts. But to think that will ever happen completely ignores human nature.

[@Postghost]

And why the hell not?

[@joshhyyym]

1:41 enormously simplified, okay, so maybe we'll use the small angle approximation somewhere or expand something out to the first term. Ohh, oh good I'll be able to keep up in this one :D

[@IceMetalPunk]

Because it's a $1 million+ prize. Where are they getting the many millions to give to multiple people per field?

[@jaapweel1]

Not quite, it's a British English word meaning "a little angry." I'm not an expert on British English, but I think it is chiefly used by parents to their children: "if you don't eat such-and-such, mummy will be very cross!"

[@lekoman]

Speaking of a complete set of Nobel Prize videos... perhaps it'd be a fun series to do with the Professor to go back and look at all of the Nobel Chemistry prizes of years past? There's almost always either a fun story, or, better, a teachable moment the Professor could talk about... no?

[@SMGG74]

Reading Dracula for the first time, whenever I imagine Van Helsing I see this guy...no idea why, but I do

[@nickrich56]

The reactions of molecules are the really interesting part ... scrambled my noodle after that. Great vid √√√

[@ArkhBaegor]

your point being?

[@spammerwhammer5526]

Great explanation of what would have remained a black art in my mind. Thank you Prof & Brady. All I hope for now is that the prize winners' computer models prove to be even slightly more reliable than those used in the UN IPCC reports .... Just received my gas bill for 2014. Thanks IPCC.

[@DamienDegois]

Completely off subject: Screen configuration behind Professor Poliakoff makes me think of a TIE Fighter

[@MrShysterme]

Heaven forbid we fund someone to do more good work or provide an outside incentive for it! Clutch the pearls!

[@LaurenSClark]

That much knowledge is cool.

[@TeslaWasHere]

Why is "so called" used so often? It sounds slightly derogatory. :/

[@MrShysterme]

That's the nobel peace prize. The nobels in science subjects are no joke. As far as "better" vs intellectual achievement.....I don't think you should talking about these things.

[@voveve]

I read something the day it was announced, I understood a little bit but only now I can explain it to friends and people that are not in the field! XD

[@Dithyrambos-h5e]

Someone needs to just set the professor up with a podcast. Maybe theme it after his mad scientist hair.

[@chewyshoey]

It wasn't just named after it was made by Nobel. He came up with the award after he saw his obituary prematurely which one of the newspapers called him a "merchant of death." Vsauce did a really cool video on this. I agree with the part that these people should be recognized, but when they only honor such a select few out of every category, that's bullshit. It makes all the other people who have contributed a great deal to their respected fields seem like they did nothing at all.

[@swaharmaman9410]

I miss the tie...:(

[@Postghost]

I'm pretty sure that's Brady too. ;D

[@prabbanjanalva4829]

ENJOYED

[@jocrane01]

This man look like science

[@Therealguymins]

I don't think anyone minds getting more footage of the professor's rad hair, either.

[@ToxicBassUK]

Yeah, why not give every scientist a Nobel Prize...it'll still be worth as much to people as if only one is given out...basic economics right? High supply therefore high price? I'm pretty sure that you were joking though and you know why they give out just one in each field...at least I hope so.

[@MrShysterme]

You used the term "all". Therefore, YOU are the one that made an extreme statement. I merely held you to your own standards.

[@12vietnow]

Dammit Brady..get yourself together man! hahahaha. I love their relationship. Don't cross the professor! Unless you're Brady.

[@GregLoutsenko]

i went to notts btw ;)

[@OOZ662]

You know you're a bigwig (hah) when you've got two office phones.

[@saber1epee0]

BTW, if you're looking to call the Nobel peace prize a fraud, start with the fact that it is named after a pioneer of high explosives. Anyway, The Nobel prizes in the humanities may be flawed, but there's nothing better than recognizing the few humans who have contributed the most and the best to their species' understanding of the universe through Physics and Chemistry. That's the whole point of an "award". It's only for the best.

[@thequickscience]

Yay 2013 nobel prize!