An image of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2006.
Beyond the rings of Saturn, our earth can be seen as a blob.

This is a processed image from the spacecraft. On March 5, 1982, the spacecraft Venera 14 landed on the surface of Venus.

Sharpless is following in the footsteps of double Nobel Prize laureates John Bardeen (physics 1956 and 1972), Marie Skłodowska Curie (physics 1903, chemistry 1911), Linus Pauling (chemistry 1954, peace 1962) and Frederick Sanger (chemistry 1958 and 1980). Both Sanger and...