The 2009 chemistry prize goes to Javier Morales, Miguel Apátiga, and Victor M. Castaño (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) for creating diamonds from liquid — specifically from tequila.

Reference
"Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila," Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano, 2008, arXiv:0806.1485.

One of the sacred cows of synthetic chemistry seems to have gone mad. According to US chemists, they have found that they don't need to dissolve their reagents in a solvent to make a reaction proceed, writes David Bradley in the latest issue of the Resonants NMR webzine.