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Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was arguably the most outstanding X-ray crystallographer of her time. She determined the structure of penicillin as well as the complicated vitamin B12. Born she would have been 109 today.
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Happy 95th birthday to astrophysicist Antony Hewish. Hewish is standing by a large antenna system he designed in the 60s. In 1967, a graduate student, Jocelyn Bell, observed a source of radiation which had not registered before. A new type of star had been discovered – a pulsar.
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Known as the Great Explainer, Richard Feynman was famous for his easy-to-understand explanations of complex scientific concepts. Today you can still learn from him thanks to the Feynman Lectures which are available online:
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The Nobel Prize 11 трав.
"No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it." Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman born offers advice to a former student struggling with his choice of research.
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The Nobel Prize 11 трав.
Today is the 101st birthday of legendary physicist, science communicator and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman. Feynman was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics, including the introduction of the famous Feynman diagram.
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The Nobel Prize 10 трав.
1933, Ernest Hemingway's books were burnt as a monument of modern decadence in the bonfire in Berlin. That was a major proof of the writer's significance and a step toward world fame. Read the full story 'A case of identity':
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The Nobel Prize 10 трав.
This amazing image taken by was only possible thanks to Nobel Laureates George Smith, born on this day in 1930, and Willard Boyle who invented the CCD sensor 50 years ago. Photo: The Hubble Space Telescope's image of the star V838 Monocerotis.
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The Nobel Prize 10 трав.
With the drugs that she created, Gertrude Elion fulfilled her life’s mission: to alleviate human suffering. Beyond the drugs she discovered, she pioneered a new, more scientific approach to drug development that altered and accelerated medical research.
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The Nobel Prize 9 трав.
Wishing a happy 72nd birthday to Chemistry Laureate Michael Levitt, who advanced the methods for computerised modelling of chemical processes – helpful tools to scientists developing more efficient medicines and solar cells, for example.
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The Nobel Prize 9 трав.
Today we remember Manfred Eigen who was born in 1927. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 for his research studying extremely fast chemical reactions, Eigen was also a gifted pianist and a committed science communicator:
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The Nobel Prize 9 трав.
In the 70s, Ada Yonath decided to map the 3D structure of the ribosome. “This was the beginning of a long quest that took over two decades, in which I was met with reactions of disbelief and even ridicule.” In 2000 she completed her quest and in 2009 was awarded the .
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The Nobel Prize 8 трав.
Neuroscientist May-Britt Moser undertook a decades-long quest to understand how the brain worked at a cellular level. She persevered through a series of challenges until with her then-husband, Edvard, she discovered the GPS of our brain - grid cells.
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The Nobel Prize 8 трав.
On 8 May 1945, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin solved the structure of penicillin after many others had failed. Later, she also managed to determine the structure of vitamin B12 and insulin. Image: Molecular model of penicillin by Hodgkin.
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The Nobel Prize 8 трав.
The International Committee of the Red Cross is the only laureate that has received the Nobel Prize three times, in 1917, 1944 and 1963. They were also recognised as part of the first Peace Prize 1901, which was awarded to Red Cross founder, Henry Dunant.
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The Nobel Prize 7 трав.
Happy 80th birthday to Sidney Altman, awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering RNA can function as an enzyme, facilitating reactions taking place in our bodies. Today RNA molecules that are capable of acting in this way are called ribozymes, some examples are in the picture.
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The Nobel Prize 7 трав.
that Literature Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, born on this day 1861, was a dedicated painter and composer? He produced thousands of art works as well as composed the national anthems for India and Bangladesh.
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The Nobel Prize 7 трав.
Take a look at some rare photographs of Literature Laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his 158th birthday.
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The Nobel Prize 7 трав.
Wise words from Literature Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, born 158 years ago.
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The Nobel Prize 7 трав.
We're celebrating the birthday of a true great: Rabindranath Tagore, who was born in 1861 in Calcutta, India. The first non-European Literature Laureate, he was awarded the "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse..."
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The Nobel Prize 6 трав.
Founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (born 6 May 1856) was nominated for 12 years for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Freud got 33 nominations. In 1929, the Nobel Committee for Medicine came to the conclusion that Freud's work was of no proven scientific value.
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