Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2014
Stefan W. Hell: Distilling it down to the essence
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.”
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2014
Erik Betzig: A tool builder
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.
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2009
Ada E Yonath: She cracked the ribosome structure
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists for mapping the ribosome at the atomic level. The pioneering work was performed by the Israeli crystallographer Ada Yonath, who dedicatedly and persistently continued to reveal the large and complex ribosome structure at a time when many believed it was impossible.
Nobel Prize Laureate - December 20, 2009
Jack W. Szostak: Basic research and new applications
Jack W Szostak was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009.
