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Did you know that all living things have DNA within their cells? Aziz Sancar, 2015 chemistry laureate, showed DNA damaged by UV light can be repaired with certain enzymes which gave researchers insight into cellular homeostasis.
Philip Noel-Baker is the only person who knows how it feels to win an Olympic medal and receive a telegram from the Nobel Committee. Here is his reply. Photo credit: The Norwegian Nobel Institute.
What is the meaning of life? Hear 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List answer the question we all are trying to find an answer to. #NobelPrize
Medicine laureate August Krogh shed light on how our bodies supply oxygen to our muscles. It was thought that the blood's rate of flow increased during exercise. Krogh showed that oxygen flow was instead increased by the opening of smaller blood vessels, capillaries.
"Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment." - Frederick Banting in his 1923 Nobel Prize lecture Read his full lecture here: bit.ly/3EqqL99 #WorldDiabetesDay
Diabetes used to be a death sentence, but that changed in 1922 when a teenager’s miraculous recovery brought hope to millions. Leonard Thompson was a happy child who loved football and other sports. At the age of eleven, he was diagnosed with diabetes, a then incurable…
“Peace is movement towards globality and universality of civilisation,” said Mikhail Gorbachev. Learn more about the peace prize laureate’s role in history: bit.ly/4d3Bzep
#OTD in 1985 chemists (left to right) Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley published the discovery of a brand new form of carbon - the fullerene. The most common structure, named after the famous architect Buckminster Fuller, has 60 carbon atoms arranged in a sphere,…
In May 1921, Fredrick Banting met his research assistant Charles Best in John Macleod's lab to begin their experiments with insulin. In January 1922, the first person received an insulin injection. By 1923, insulin was commercially available. Banting and Macleod received the 1923…
At our recent Nobel Prize Dialogue in Sydney, Australia, physics laureate Saul Perlmutter spoke about truth and the importance of keeping an open mind. Watch the full event here: youtube.com/playlist?list=… #NobelPrize
Do you know how many elements bear the names of Nobel Prize laureates?
In 1968, biochemist Robert Lefkowitz attached a radioactive isotope of iodine to the hormone adrenaline. By tracking the radiation emitted by the isotope, he succeeded in finding a receptor for adrenaline and studied how it functions. It was later discovered that there is an…
The world's first neutrino observation in a hydrogen bubble chamber took place #OTD in 1970. Bubble chambers were invented by #NobelPrize laureate Luis Alvarez and could be used to detect high energy particles.
Rabindranath Tagore was announced as the first non-European literature laureate #OTD in 1913. Tagore was awarded the #NobelPrize "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse..." Learn more: bit.ly/2l0FxzA
Charles Townes was sitting on a park bench in Washington D.C. when he experienced a revelation about how to create a beam of short-wavelength, high-frequency light. He later helped to invent the laser, which has changed the world and our understanding of space. Learn more:…
Have you run a marathon? How about the six biggest marathons in the world? That's medicine laureate Shinya Yamanka's personal goal. Hear him speak about the similarities between running a marathon and doing science. At this year's Nobel Week Dialogue on 9 December we will be…
Argon, the first noble gas in the periodic table to be isolated, was named after the Greek word for lazy after it was found to be totally unreactive. Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay earned the 1904 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, respectively, for the discovery.
Did you know that the discovery of the elements americium (95) and curium (96) were first announced on kids radio? On this day in 1945, #NobelPrize laureate Glenn Seaborg announced his discovery of elements 95 and 96 in response to a question on a Quiz Kids radio program.
This year's peace prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, an organisation made up of survivors from the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They continue to share their stories to strengthen the nuclear weapons taboo and prevent future catastrophes. The origami paper…
Origami cranes have become a powerful symbol of a world without nuclear weapons following the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. At the time of the bombing Sadako Sasaki, a two year old girl, was one kilometre from the centre of the Hiroshima blast.…
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