NLS Nobel Prize

The lucky winners of this year’s Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine are William C Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu. William C Campbell and  Satoshi Omura receives the Prize for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites, and Youyou Tu receives the Prize for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against […]

For William E. Moerner, research is not something done in isolation; it also is a valuable teaching tool.

Stefan W. Hell, PhD, likes to get down to the fundamentals. As an undergraduate, he disliked hearing professors say, “If you do the maths, you’ll know why this is so.” He was convinced everything could be reduced to the simplest principles and spent hours, as he put it in his autobiography, “trying to distill concepts and phenomena down to their essence.”

Despite earning multiple degrees in physics and all his years doing research, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Eric Betzig sees himself foremost as a tool builder.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, announced on October 8, was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner. The prize is given for “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy” states the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Optical microscopy has been held back for a long time by a presumed limitation: that it […]

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, announced on October 6, was awarded jointly to John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser.  The prize is given for “their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain” states the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. This year’s Nobel Laureates have discovered a positioning system, an “inner GPS” […]