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  1. 11 hours ago

    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!

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  2. 16 hours ago

    "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 in Literature.

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  3. Jun 21

    “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 late at night to feel the echoing resonance it added to his playing” Hugh Lewis on his Nobel Laureate father, Edward Lewis.

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  4. Jun 21

    “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 in Literature Laureate, Bob Dylan.

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  5. Jun 20

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

    10 replies . 77 retweets 218 likes
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  6. Jun 20

    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: Portrait photo by Henry van der Weyde

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  7. Jun 20

    In ’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.

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  8. Jun 19

    55% of refugees worldwide are from 3 countries: South Sudan, Afghanistan and Syria (Source: Double awardee UNHCR, ) Today is the day the world commemorates the strength, courage & perseverance of refugees. More figures:

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  9. Jun 19

    After Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, Ernest Chain (pictured) - born - 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 .

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  10. Jun 19

    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 , was awarded the 1975 Physics Prize for work on the structure of the atomic nucleus.

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  11. Jun 18

    "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:

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  12. Jun 18

    "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:

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  13. Jun 17

    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.

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  14. Jun 17

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

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  15. Jun 17

    Happy birthday 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:

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  16. Jun 17

    By watching clocks tick non-stop for 14 years, physicists have managed to illustrate one of the basic ideas in Einstein’s theory of general relativity

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  17. Jun 16

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

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  18. Jun 16

    "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 Dialogue in Seoul.

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  19. Jun 15

    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 Laureates.

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  20. Jun 15

    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: .

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