James Mwangi

A technology aficionado, a proud African, global citizen, sage, professional, husband, father and enthusiastic human being.

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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

-Werner Heisenberg

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Remember conditioned reflex action?

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You’ve probably heard of Pavlov’s dogs experiment, but did you know Ivan Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for another breakthrough?

Learn more: https://t.co/SGp3227nlB

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#OTD in 2015, the universe’s gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein a century before, were observed for the first time by @LIGO.

The observation led to a new way to study our universe and the 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics for Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne.

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"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

- Erwin Schrödinger

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Physics laureate George Smith received the Nobel Prize for developing the CCD sensor. Without it, we would not have digital cameras.

Did you know that his dissertation, published on this day in 1959, was just three pages long? More about Smith: https://t.co/OIOL851MzC

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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.

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Registration Link: https://t.co/BNTfs7qPXy

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The Easter spirit

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Wangari Maathai was harassed, beaten and jailed for championing environmentalism and human rights.

Learn about her courageous life and the achievements of the Green Belt Movement: https://t.co/AMMChkcCea

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Wangari Maathai was the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize.

Born on this day, she was a committed environmentalist and founded the Green Belt Movement, which led to the planting of millions of trees.

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Did you know that our body 'eats' itself to stay healthy?

Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the mechanisms for ‘self-eating’ or autophagy, which refers to the way our cells destroy and recycle their own contents.

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The world's most efficient recycling plant, the human kidney, uses special channels to recover water from urine our body produces every day. For years no one knew what the channels looked like, but in 1990 Peter Agre isolated a protein he proved was the sought-after water canal.

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@mowteender_lucy @esmtberlin Pls pass my regards to Prof Francis Bidault if you come across him. He was my dean and project supervisor back in the day.

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Leon Lederman was a trailblazing physicist, known for his charm, charisma and passion for science education.

His popular book referred to the Higgs particle as the 'God particle,' which has stuck in the public's minds ever since.

Read more: https://t.co/0cyKxiDLve

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What makes a successful scientist?

2020 medicine laureate Charles Rice shares his thoughts on what success means for a scientist.

Watch the full session at: https://t.co/ibQFL4jq2f

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Becoming Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Born as Marya Skłodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, the girl in the left image would grow up to discover polonium and radium, champion the use of radiation in medicine and fundamentally change our understanding of radioactivity.

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After Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, Ernest Chain (pictured) alongside Howard Florey, was instrumental in the isolation of the antibiotic.

This led to a pharmaceutical that could be produced in large quantities. All three received the 1945 #NobelPrize.

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On discovery of Malaria's cause in 1907. It's still a major killer 107 years later.

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Alphonse Laveran showed that malaria is caused by a single-celled organism: a protozoan of the Plasmodium family, which attacks red blood cells. The discovery earned him the 1907 medicine prize.

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“When women are destroyed, it’s not a women’s question. It’s a human question.”

@DenisMukwege was awarded the 2018 #NobelPeacePrize for his work fighting against the use of sexual violence in war.

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict

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"Opposition is not the same as undermining."

Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2010 "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."

Read his #NobelPrize lecture: https://t.co/VLuW3RWlRl