Today would have been the 104th birthday of Francis Crick, was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his part in the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/2DHErPo
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Saturday, June 6, 2020
PARENT-CHILD PAIRS WHO WON THE NOBEL
Did you know that seven parent-child pairs have been awarded a Nobel Prize?
On Global Day of Parents, let's take a look at the seven pairs:
Marie (Chemistry 1911) 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: Marie with her daughters Irène and Eve sitting on a bench, 1905.
#DayofParents
Thursday, June 4, 2020
GREAT SCIENTISTS
*GREAT SCIENTISTS*
“Thank you for saving my life."
Tomas Dahl (pictured left) was diagnosed with tonsil cancer and told there was no cure. But after trying the cancer therapy pioneered by 2018 Medicine Laureates James Allison and Tasuku Honjo (centre and right), he emerged cancer-free.
Dahl was one of several cancer patients who had the chance to share their story with the two Nobel Laureates at an emotional meeting in Stockholm, Sweden in December 2018. “Meeting the people who have benefitted from our research is the real prize for me,” said Allison. “When I meet patients who tell me: ‘You saved my life,' it is an unforgettable moment,” added Honjo.
After his diagnosis in January 2017, Dahl began convention cancer treatments – radiation, chemotherapy and surgery. No treatment worked. In February 2018, he was informed that there was nothing else that could be done. "I had a few months left to live,” says Dahl. "I explained to my kids that I would not make it."
In March, however, he began a new treatment: immunotherapy and – in his words – “was awarded the gift of life. The treatment had completely erased all cancer cells in my body.”
“There simply aren’t words to express the gratitude I feel,” he told Allison and Honjo. “I would not be here today if it wasn’t for you and your discovery.”
Allison and Honjo were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a new cancer therapy which stimulates our immune system to attack tumour cells.
#NCSD2020
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
ROLE MODELS
#CoronaWarriors #InThisTogether
"We had hordes of people coming days and we kept continuously cooking food for them... We welcomed all with smiles and folded hands, irrespective of caste, religion... My regular team of 17 'sevaks', including 11 cooks and other helpers were overworked but ensured a non-stop supply of fresh, piping hot food," says Baba Karnail Singh Khaira.
For the last two months, 81-year-old Khaira has been serving meals free of cost to scores of travellers on the National Highway-7. His ramshackle tin shed with plastic sheets is the only spot that serves meals on a stretch of nearly 450 km.
"This is a remote, tribal region. Behind us for nearly 150-km, and ahead for nearly 300 km, there's not a single dhaba or restaurant... So most people prefer to halt at 'Guru ka langar' and avail of our round-the-clock services," says Khaira.
And that's not all. The compassionate man has also been feeding chapati-jaggery daily to over 250 hungry stray animals in the vicinity, including dogs, cats and cows.
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Respectful Salute to Mr Khaira and grateful thanks to THE BETTER INDIA.
Monday, June 1, 2020
GREAT ECONOMISTS : William Nordhaus
”The most important job I do is teaching.”
Happy birthday to William Nordhaus!
The same morning he learnt he'd been awarded the 2018 Prize in Economic Sciences, Nordhaus taught his intermediate macroeconomics class at Yale University. The press conference regarding the announcement had to be postponed so he could finish his class.
Nordhaus was awarded the 2018 Prize in Economic Sciences "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis."
#NobelPrize
William Dawbney Nordhaus is an American economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change. Together with Paul Romer he won the laureates of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
WIKIPEDIA
Grateful thanks to #NOBELPRIZE and WIKIPEDIA.
GREAT WRITERS : Svetlana Alexievich
"I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love."
- Svetlana Alexievich speaking during the 2015 Nobel Prize banquet. She turns 72 today - join us in wishing her a happy birthday.
#NobelPrize
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award.
Grateful thanks to #NobelPrize and Wikipedia.
GREAT WRITERS : GABRIEL GARZA MARQUEZ
May 5 :
On this day in 1967 Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece of magical realism, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', was published.
Read an extract: https://bit.ly/2MWeIFm
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
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