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“The unforgotten moments of my life are those rare ones which come after years of plodding work, when the veil over nature’s secret seems suddenly to lift, and when what was dark and chaotic appears in a clear and beautiful light and pattern,” said medicine laureate Gerty Cori. Learn more: https://t.co/1T53mZ41mw #NobelPrize

“I think it will have a huge influence. It will be comparable with the industrial revolution. But instead of exceeding people in physical strength, it’s going to exceed people in intellectual ability. We have no experience of what it’s like to have things smarter than us and it’s going to be wonderful in many respects. In areas like healthcare, it’s going to give us much better healthcare.” Born #OnThisDay in 1947, physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton is sometimes described as the "Godfather of AI" and he helped lay the foundation for the machine learning revolution that started around 2010. Hinton shared the 2024 physics prize with John Hopfield, for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Learn more by watching our official interview: https://t.co/MD061XWG54

Eighty years ago, Alexander Fleming received the medicine prize for discovering penicillin – a breakthrough that has since saved millions of lives. Yet even in his 1945 Nobel Prize lecture, Fleming warned of antibiotic overuse leading to dangerous resistance. That warning has become a reality. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Chilean scientist Cristina Dorador has made it her mission to find answers in one of the harshest environments on Earth – the Atacama Desert. There, she is on the hunt to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics. Watch the documentary ‘Life Invisible’ here: https://t.co/XPgmwjsAlQ

In medical school, Gerty Cori found two of her life’s passions: biochemistry and Carl Cori. She and Carl met in anatomy class and became inseparable. They shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 for uncovering the process of cellular energy storage and release. #NobelPrize