FREE-FLYING ASTRONAUT !

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats untethered away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive. The first person in history to do so.

Credit: NASA

PILLARS OF HOMEOPATHY : DR. J. T. KENT'S BIRTHDAY

ROLE MODEL FROM GERMANY

ROLE MODELS OF FINLAND!

LOGOS!

C. V. RAMAN

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ACHIEVERS

REMEMBERING MARIE CURIE

NOBEL LAUREATES WITH AN INDIAN CONNECTION

DR ROBERT DUDGEON'S BIRTHDAY

DALAI LAMA ON SRI RAMAKRISHNA

LEGENDS

CENTENARY OF EINSTEIN

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EINSTEIN WITH JOLIET CURIE

Irene Joliot Curie and Albert Einstein ( both Nobel Laurates )  met in Princeton, U S A at Einstein's home .  

Imagine being a fly on the wall when Albert Einstein met Irène Joliot-Curie.  

What the two of them talked about is unknown but perhaps Irène Joliot-Curie’s mother Marie Skłodowska Curie (who was a friend of Albert Einstein) might have been a topic that was up for discussion. 

Einstein was awarded the 1921 physics prize for his work on theoretical physics whilst Irène Joliot-Curie was awarded the 1935 chemistry prize for her work on new radioactive elements.

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HOMEO PIONEERS : BOENNINGHAUSEN

Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

Nadia Murad, awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others. 

Murad is a member of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq. In 2014 the IS launched a brutal attack on her home village. Several hundred people were massacred, and girls and young women were abducted and held as sex slaves. While a captive of the IS, Nadia Murad was repeatedly subjected to rape and other abuses. After three months she managed to flee. She now works to help women and children who are victims of abuse and human trafficking

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2xlk9uH

#IWD2021

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Walter Kohn, a physicist, was awarded the Nobel Prize

In 1998 Walter Kohn, a physicist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the density-functional theory." It led to a potentially tricky encounter:

"The day after I received the Prize of course it was quite a sensation in my little town in Santa Barbara, so I walked across the Campus and two students... are walking in the opposite direction, and they must have seen my picture somewhere, perhaps in the student newspaper, and so one of them turns around and comes back and says to me “Are you the guy who won the Nobel Prize?” and I said “Yes, I am” and so they both gave me a very friendly hug and then they kept going again, but then one came back again and said “Do you mind, we are just going to a chemistry exam, can we ask you a question?”

So yes I was in a very tight spot! So I said “well try me” and I started praying very hard because I knew that the more elementary the questions would be the less likely that I could answer them! And so then this one young woman began to ask a question and then I recognised an interesting fact. You see my … the fact that I got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry reflects the fact that at a certain theoretic level chemistry and physics are very close to each other, but also at the lowest level they’re very close to each other... So the question they had for me was in fact a physics question. So I gave them a brilliant answer! They were very impressed."

See the full interview with Kohn: https://bit.ly/2Vnvtk6

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DORIS LESSING, the 2007 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature.

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

Wise words from Doris Lessing who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lessing's body of work comprises around 50 books and spans several genres. Her writing is characterised by penetrating studies of living conditions in the 20th century, behavioural patterns and historical developments.

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WHAT AN ENTREPRENEUR ! 👏👏👏

Wealthier nations like the united states Britain France and Germany poured billions of dollars into 

Developing Vaccines.However for injecting this vaccines the World needed 8 biliion to  10 billion in syringes for injecting these vaccines. 

Officials in the United states and European Union said they do not have enough syringes for the vaccines.

Rajiv Nath sensed a big opportunity in March 2020. He is the managing director of Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices situated at Ballabgarh in Rajasthan. Each of his syringe sells for Rs5/ . He invested 15 Million dollars to massproduce Speciality syringes even before Purchase orders were even in sight. In May He ordered new molds from suppliers in Italy Germany and Japan to make a variety of barrels and 

Plungers for his syringes. He added 500 workers to his production lines. Now his machines crank out more than 5900 syringes per minutes at his factory spread over 11 acres in industrial district in Rajasthan.The Company churns out nearly 2.5  billion syringes a year . He is scaling this up to 3 billion in July.The Company has begun shipping 3.2 million syringes. Nath has already sold 15 million syringesto the Japanese government. Over 400 million syringes is for india’s  massive vaccination drive.

UNICEF and Brazil has placed orders for 240 million syringes.

To increase efficiency Nath relies on a syringe design by Marc Koska, a British Inventor of safety injections. Hindustan syringes makes its needles from stain steel strips imported from japan.To make the jabs less painful the needles are dipped in silicon solution. He knows if the demand for his syringes dips by even half he will be wiped out.  When asked about this he said It is  better to be a big fish in a small pond.

*WHAT AN ENTREPRENEUR*👏👏👏

NOBEL LAURATES

NOBEL LAUREATE ANDREA GHEZ

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NOBEL LAUREATE Louise Glück

"You have to live your life if you’re going to do original work. Your work will come out of an authentic life, and if you suppress all of your most passionate impulses in the service of an art that has not yet declared itself, you’re making a terrible mistake. 

When I was young I led the life I thought writers were supposed to lead, in which you repudiate the world, ostentatiously consecrating all of your energies to the task of making art. I just sat in Provincetown at a desk and it was ghastly - the more I sat there not writing the more I thought that I just hadn’t given up the world enough. After two years of that, I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t going to be a writer. So I took a teaching job in Vermont, though I had spent my life till that point thinking that real poets don’t teach. But I took this job, and the minute I started teaching - the minute I had obligations in the world - I started to write again."

- Louise Glück, our newest Literature Laureate was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."

Read more in this Q&A with the poet: https://www.pw.org/content/internal_tapestries

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NOBEL LAUREATE Daniel Kahneman, awarded the 2002 Prize in Economic Sciences

”Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater inside out to walk the few blocks home. As I was walking down an empty street, I saw a German soldier approaching. He was wearing the black uniform that I had been told to fear more than others - the one worn by specially recruited SS soldiers. As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed he was looking at me intently. Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me. I was terrified he would notice the star inside my sweater. He was speaking to me with great emotion, in German. When he put me down, he opened his wallet, showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money. I went home more certain that ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly complicated and interesting.”

- Daniel Kahneman, awarded the 2002 Prize in Economic Sciences

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

NOBEL LAUREATE FRANCES ARNOLD

BRILLIANT SCIENTIST WHO CONNECTED NUCLEAR PHYSICS WITH THE COSMOS

PARENT-CHILD NOBEL LAUREATES!

Did you know that seven parent-child pairs have been awarded a Nobel Prize?

One of these pairs is the father Arthur Kornberg (awarded the 1959 Medicine Prize) and his son Roger D. Kornberg (awarded the 2006 Chemistry Prize).

Here are the other six parent-child pairs:

Marie Skłodowska (Chemistry 1911, Physics 1903) and Pierre Curie (Physics 1903)

Irène Joliot-Curie (Chemistry 1935)

William Bragg (Physics 1915)

Lawrence Bragg (Physics 1915)

Niels Bohr (Physics 1922)

Aage N. Bohr (Physics 1975)

Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Chemistry 1929)

Ulf von Euler (Medicine 1970)

Arthur Kornberg (Medicine 1959)

Roger D. Kornberg (Chemistry 2006)

Manne Siegbahn (Physics 1924)

Kai M. Siegbahn (Physics 1981)

J. J. Thomson (Physics 1906)

George Paget Thomson (Physics 1937)

Picture: Father and son duo, Arthur and Roger Kornberg.

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GREAT LIVES : BALBIR SINGH

PADMA SHRI NANDA PRUSTY