Nobel Prize Series, India 2018 is an exciting program which brings together Nobel Laureates and other experts to stimulate innovation & creative thinking.
@NobelPrize Series 2018 @DBTindia . CM Parrikar led teams, brought a world-class exhibition to Goa. Every school visited it. He spoke about questioning received wisdom and the importance of basic research. Refreshing.A Very Goan Indian. Always only a phone call away: To anyone.
When Schrodinger described the idea that a particle that could exist in two states at once - illustrated by his famous cat - he never thought we could directly observe this quantum strangeness. Yet this is just what Serge Haroche did, when he observed a single photon in a trap
When asked what she would advise a young person deciding on a career, Nobel Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard told scientists not to follow each other's advice too much.
"I propose this evening to speak to you on a new kind of radiation or light emission from atoms and molecules." Venkata Raman of Calcutta University 80 years ago on 16 March, 1928. #NobelPrize awarded for the Raman effect.
#OTD 90 years ago Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman discovered the Raman effect.
The Raman effect is the change in wavelength that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules. The phenomenon is named for the Indian physicist, who led experiments on the scattering of light
As a child Medicine Laureate Richard Roberts wanted to be a detective. Today he’s achieved that dream.
“I solve problems all day by doing research. I’ve become a detective. Just not the sort I imagined when I was 10 or 11 years old!”
"At school I had a teacher that didn't like me and I didn't like him. At the end of the year he decided to fail me. The ironic thing is that the topic was chemistry."
"I have the distinction of being the only Chemistry Laureate who failed the topic in high school!" Tomas Lindahl
In honor of Charles Darwin, born #OTD, don’t forget that you can read ALL of his published work, including On the Origin of Species, completely free of charge: https://t.co/jb7iSWCQQG
Photo: Darwin regularly walked along this path and called it his "Thinking Path".
Bridging the gender gap in #STEM is vital to achieving the #GlobalGoals & fulfilling the promise to leave no one behind.
Let’s stand with #WomenInScience today & every day! https://t.co/PVr9fZOFP5
"We have to show them what women can do in science!"
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi received the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 for her role in the discovery of human immunodeficiency (AIDS) virus. #WomenInScience
The only mother-daughter Nobel Laureates: Marie and Irène Curie.
Marie discovered radium and polonium and Irène artificial radioactivity.
#WomenInScience#NobelFamilies#NobelPrize