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  1. 1 hour ago

    "If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Remembering one of the most powerful and distinguished storytellers of our time: Toni Morrison.

    Toni Morrison: Highlights
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  2. Aug 4

    Aged 23, before she’d even earned her PhD, Carol Greider made her discovery. Along with laureate Elizabeth Blackburn she discovered telomerase. At each end of a chromosome lies a protective "cap" called a telomere – telomerase is the enzyme that creates it.

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  4. Aug 4

    Take a sneak peek at theoretical physicist Abdus Salam's office. The picture was taken in 1983, four years after he was awarded the in Physics. He used his prize money for the benefit of physicists from developing countries. Learn more:

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  5. Aug 3

    "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist who was awarded the 1925 literature prize.

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  6. Aug 1

    in 1912 physics laureate Niels Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund. One of their sons, Aage Bohr, would also go onto become a physicist and was awarded a in Physics of his own for work on the structure of the atomic nucleus.

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  7. 21 hours ago

    On 5 August 1963 Nelson Mandela was arrested and later sentenced to five years in prison. He would stay imprisoned for 27 years. Most of the time he spent in the prison at Robben Island off the coast of South Africa.

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  8. Aug 3

    1988 medicine laureate James Black on his love of teaching and talking to graduate students. Black was awarded the 1988 medicine prize for discoveries of important principles for drug treatment. Find our full interview with him here:

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  9. Jul 29

    “I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.” laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was one of the most outstanding X-ray crystallographers of her time. She determined the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12, and the 3D structure of insulin.

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  10. 9 hours ago

    winning economist has criticised the Central government over its fiscal policy, saying that the Centre is adopting a wrong policy of tax collection by continuously increasing cess and pushing up fuel prices. (IANS)

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  11. Aug 1

    "I was so famous for practical jokes that she, of course, couldn't trust anything I did." Hear physicist Douglas Osheroff share some stories from his wild childhood. Today it is Osheroff's 76th birthday - join us in wishing him a happy birthday!

    Douglas Osheroff's wild childhood
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  12. Aug 1

    Amazing documentary about not being awarded with the by her discovery of pulsars. Thanks for the recommendation ⁦⁩ via

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  13. 13 hours ago

    Art is a never-ending dance of illusions. - 2016 for Literature

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  14. Aug 4

    The science of telemeres and their connection to aging is fascinating! Amazing work at a young age 👏

    Aged 23, before she’d even earned her PhD, Carol Greider made her discovery. Along with laureate Elizabeth Blackburn she discovered telomerase. At each end of a chromosome lies a protective "cap" called a telomere – telomerase is the enzyme that creates it.
  15. Aug 4

    "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” Remembering Toni Morrison, writer of novels, essays, song lyrics and winner of the for Literature in 1993, who died in 2019

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  16. Jul 29

    “We are in science to unravel the secrets of nature.” Chemistry Laureate Aaron Ciechanover describes the interplay between science and nature - and how this has even made its way onto the medal.

    Aaron Ciechanover: Unravelling the secrets of nature
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  17. Jul 29

    Our director and winner Reinhard Genzel have been welcomed at his "second home", the .

    The biggest perk to being a Berkeley Nobelist? Free parking.
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  18. Jul 29

    For today's we have an old Franck-Hertz experiment apparatus. This experiment won the 1925 Nobel prize for demonstrating discrete atomic energy levels as hypothesized by Bohr’s atomic theory.

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  19. Aug 5

    Why!! coz theory is not equal to practical

    Today Mamata Banerjee met the "global advisory board" for WB govt. Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee on it Will Abhijit Banerjee explain 1) Why does Gujarat get 33 times the FDI of Bengal? 2) Why does Bengal produce less GST than Odisha, even though WB has twice the population?
  20. Aug 3

    Another interesting potential way can be used - preserving pieces of art. “A graphene cloak keeps artworks’ colours ageless”👇 Andre Geim & Konstantin Novoselov - both ERC grantees - earned the in 2010 for discovering this wonder material.

    Preserving pieces of art can now be added to the potential uses of 'wonder material' graphene. The material was first discovered by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov who received the 2010 Physics Prize for their work. Read more here:
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  21. Aug 1

    Can't we just give the freakin already?!? “But it really kind of all began to be put on the map when Dolly quietly invested in the area."

    Dolly Parton invested Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” cover royalties in Black community
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