Noble prize writing assignment
CHM 105 Writing Assignment
➢ This project fulfills Course Objective 11 and relates to General Education Objectives (GEO’s) 1, 3, 5, and 7.
➢ Your must submit your paper via the Blackboardassignment link by 11:59pm on the due date. Late reports will receive a 10% penalty per day.
From 1901 to 2018, 180 individuals were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, five of whom were women. There were 209 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics, three of whom werewomen. There were 216 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, twelve of whom were women. Interestingly, Marie Curie accounts for two of the eight awards in chemistry and physics, as she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911, and her daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, was a recipient for Chemistry in 1935 (“Nobel,” n.d.). In 2020 two more women were added to the list when it was announced that Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the gene-editing tool, CRISPR/Cas9.
References
Nobel Prizes and Laureates. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/
Content
Your writing assignment will consist of two parts:
- Select a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Physics, or Physiology or Medicine who would also be considered a minority. Share biographical information about the scientist, including how they became interested in science, an overview of their scientific career, obstacles they had to overcome, and give a summary of the research for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize. Your discussion should be a minimum of one page.
- For part two of the assignment, select a scientist from the Hanna H. Gray Fellow Program who is carrying out research that you find interesting.
Find a peer-reviewed research article from a scholarly journal that they have published. The PLOS and ProQuest databases either indicate whether articles are peer-reviewed, or allow you to include peer-reviewed as a search term. Study the article and answer the following questions in your own words:
❖ What research question are the authors attempting to answer?
❖ Why is the research significant?
❖ What data did the authors collect?
❖ What is the authors interpretation of the data?
Your discussion for part 2 of this assignment should be a minimum of one page.
Reading and interpreting a scientific article is not easy and takes a lot of practice. The following video will help you to learn how to navigate the different parts of a scientific article:
How to Read and Comprehend Scientific Research Articles
Formatting
- Your paper must follow APA format. Guidelines on formatting your paper, citing sources, and formatting references using APA style can be found in your Blackboard course, or on the Resource Centers (Library) page of the Wor-Wic website: https://www.worwic.edu/Services-Support/Academic-Support/Resource-Centers-(Library)
- Your report must include in-text citations in APA format.
➢ Any information, ideas, or facts that are not common knowledge, visuals that were not created by you, or direct quotes, must have a citation in order to avoid plagiarism.
➢ Use the following guidelines in preparing your in-text citations:
o If there is more than one source for the information in a section or paragraph, each piece of information must have a citation adjacent to it.
o The in-text and visual citations must clearly match the items in the reference section.
o Any visuals not created by you should be cited.
◊ According to the APA guidelines, each figure should have a figure number and a caption that briefly explains the visual.
◊ A citation should be included after the caption, following the same format you would use for an in-text citation.
References
You must have at least 3 references.
➢ You must use at least 1 “peer-reviewed” or “refereed article” from a professional science/medical journal obtained from the Wor-Wic electronic database (available through the WWCC media centers).
➢ Science reference book (e.g., your chemistry text) – no more than one.
➢ Web sites –must be legitimate sources e.g., American Lung Association, Centers for Disease Control, etc.; (NOTWikipedia, WebMD, blogs, advertisements for medicines, or special interest group websites/literature). Additional websites may be used for visuals only.
➢ Professional science journals (e.g., Chemical & Engineering News, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, etc.) – as many as you want.
➢ Popular science magazines or widely distributed news magazines (e.g., Discover, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek etc.) – as many as you want.
See your instructor if you have any questions about the validity of a source for this assignment.
