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Ada Yonath reflects on her on-going passion for science. How do we encourage the next generation to study science? "By respecting their curiosity," answers the Chemistry Laureate. Today is Yonath's 79th birthday! #WomenInScience #NobelPrizepic.twitter.com/B3rliwSj2L

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence." - Rabindranath Tagore, awarded the 1913 #NobelPrize in Literature.pic.twitter.com/3jOfOQnTMB

“He started playing in high school - got good at it and kept playing it throughout his life. He'd play in the stairwells of the Kerckhoff Building @Caltech late at night to feel the echoing resonance it added to his playing” Hugh Lewis on his Nobel Laureate father, Edward Lewis.pic.twitter.com/mrG4H9o0QR

“Somewhere in the back of my mind, I’m still a singer-songwriter.” Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his journey from guitars to novels – and how he was influenced by fellow #NobelPrize in Literature Laureate, Bob Dylan. #WorldMusicDaypic.twitter.com/zYrxmI0Uhg

Happy birthday to Shirin Ebadi, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to secure democracy and human rights, especially for women and children.pic.twitter.com/LdG6ytXOYF

Fridtjof Nansen made crucial contributions to humanitarian causes over a century ago, working on behalf of refugees and displaced victims of war until his death in 1930. Learn more about Nansen: http://bit.ly/2L39BC7  #WithRefugees Portrait photo by Henry van der Weydepic.twitter.com/uUVHn845ld

In @Malala’s next book 'We are Displaced', she focuses on the refugee experience. The book is an introduction for young readers to "what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you’ve ever known." Available after 4 September. #WithRefugeespic.twitter.com/J5JohIzKNd

After Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, Ernest Chain (pictured) - born #OTD - 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.pic.twitter.com/yGShRyZ1ds

Niels Bohr was awarded the 1922 Physics Prize for his model of the structure of the atom. 53 years later his son Aage Bohr, born #onthisday, was awarded the 1975 Physics Prize for work on the structure of the atomic nucleus.pic.twitter.com/XrqNVsxhEF

"If we get it right on food, we are very likely to get it right for planet earth". Professor Johan Rockström talks about how sustainable food can help us halt global warming at the 2016 Nobel Week Dialogue: https://youtu.be/nn7PNoTobKs  #SustainableGastronomyDaypic.twitter.com/85cXP2sOtD

"Nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return, other than that we think and feel." Literature Laureate Herta Müller rounds off her speech at the 2009 Nobel Prize banquet. Read the speech in full: http://bit.ly/2JtIcbQ pic.twitter.com/vizmdnXmH4

In 1939 Leopold Ruzicka and Adolf Butenandt were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for independently showing how to synthesise testosterone from cholesterol. Prior to their work, very little was known about the origin of sex hormones.pic.twitter.com/oOXmf5YSbC

In the 1960s, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick received so many invites he was forced to deal with them in a novel way.pic.twitter.com/jLbHUma6tR

Happy birthday @ElBaradei who turns 76 today! “Today, with globalization bringing us ever closer together, if we choose to ignore the insecurities of some, they will soon become the insecurities of all.” Read ElBaradei’s Nobel Peace Prize Lecture: http://bit.ly/2HS1N3X pic.twitter.com/W21dKzFNmd

Barbara McClintock, the only woman to be awarded an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was born #OTD in 1902. McClintock discovered 'jumping genes' in corn, and proved that chunks of genetic code can change position on a chromosome, affecting genetic expression.pic.twitter.com/L4qu7Q0nPC

"The aim should not be to get a Nobel Prize – be happy and enthusiastic about what you are doing!” answered Serge Haroche during a round table discussion with students at the #NobelPrize Dialogue in Seoul.pic.twitter.com/IzEHzGMFTG

Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger… was this the greatest meeting of minds, ever? Some of the world’s most notable physicists participated in the 1927 Solvay Conference. In fact, 17 of the 29 scientists attending were or became #NobelPrize Laureates.pic.twitter.com/rwOlRd3pBR

Literature Laureate Bertrand Russell was an advocate for reason and humanism and a dedicated defender of freedom of speech and freedom of thought. The quote is taken from his Nobel Lecture: https://goo.gl/W9cEts .pic.twitter.com/2Mc9hRWanD