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This year’s economic sciences laureates have demonstrated that many of society’s big questions can be answered. Their solution is to use natural experiments – situations arising in real life that resemble randomised experiments.
#NobelPrize
"I always like to go to the extremes. Can we do things that were just impossible before?"
- 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List talks about his future research at this morning's #NobelPrize press conference.
“It’s clear that for the future generation, we have to act now in a very fast way.”
- 2021 physics laureate Giorgio Parisi speaks about the current climate situation at this morning's #NobelPrize press conference.
Can you guess what this picture is? It's an image of Vitamin C, taken with polarised light.
Vitamin C led to both the 1937 Medicine and Chemistry Prizes: to Albert von Szent-Györgyi, who first isolated it, and Norman Haworth for determining its molecular structure.
“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through the research that they are performing.”
- 2020 Chemistry Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier.
Can you guess what this picture is? It's an image of vitamin C, taken with polarised light.
Vitamin C led to both the 1937 Medicine and Chemistry Prizes: to Albert von Szent-Györgyi, born #OTD, who first isolated it, and Norman Haworth for determining its molecular structure.
Alfred Nobel was born #OTD 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden.
He was a truly global citizen; he spoke six languages and lived in various countries such as Sweden, Russia, France and Italy.
Luis Alvarez received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research in elementary particle physics. However he is probably more famous for publishing the theory that the dinosaurs became extinct after an asteroid collided with Earth 65 million years ago.
#AsteroidDay