Superstar science: Custom guitars for Nobel laureates and Swifties’ seismic signals

Rock stars of science If you're stumped about what to get the Nobel laureate in your life, anecdotal evidence suggests a customized guitar may be a good option. Carolyn Bertozzi, who received a share of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on click and bioorthogonal chemistry, is famously musical . So in January 2023, the staff of ACS Central Science , the journal for which she serves as editor in chief, surprised her with a custom bass guitar. "It was one of my favorite, fun, unexpected side projects," Sofia Garakyaraghi, the managing editor of the journal, tells Newscripts. Garakyaraghi remembered Bertozzi telling her a few years ago that she was trying to learn to play bass guitar. So she and her publications colleagues decided they'd get Bertozzi one to congratulate her on her Nobel win. They worked with a company specializing in custom guitar skins to customize