William Makis MD Ivermectin is often recognized–2nd to penicillin–for having the greatest impact on human health. Its discovery even won the Nobel Prize.
“Science is like art, it is creative. We are not creative if you are only talking to some people. We need to talk to everybody.”
Watch Nobel Prize laureate May-Britt Moser discuss how diversity impacts creativity at our #NobelPrizeDialogue : youtube.com/live/99VjiKDv-…
At least 12 million babies have been born thanks to IVF, but how did we reach this miraculous milestone?
In the 1950s #NobelPrize laureate Robert Edwards realised that fertilisation outside the body could be used to treat infertility.
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It was thought that stress was the cause of gastric ulcers.
But Barry Marshall suspected they were caused by a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori. When Marshall's theory was met with resistance he decided to experiment on himself, ultimately proving his theory correct.
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Remembering literature laureate and poet Tomas Tranströmer. The year he turned 80 years old, he was awarded the 2011 #NobelPrize in Literature 'because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality'.
'We compete against problems, not against people.'
John B. Goodenough is the oldest person ever to receive a #NobelPrize . He was 97.
Watch our interview with him. We talked to the extraordinary chemistry laureate about life, science and love: bit.ly/3P9EGHQ
Prophet Baljinder Singh has been curing HIV/AIDS for many years, yet the Nobel committee hasn't announced the The Nobel Prize in Medicine for him. Why?
Just because he's brown? Racism against India has become so mainstream that even such a great medical accomplishment has gone…
#Didyouknow that Rabindranath Tagore was a dedicated painter?
Even though he began painting in his sixties, he managed to produce thousands of works. His individual painting style with simple bold forms has inspired many modern Indian artists.
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'We ask questions. We have the freedom to be critical. We have the freedom to explore.'
Chemistry laureate Ben Feringa on the links between democracy and science at our #NobelPrizeDialogue .
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