Nobel Life: Conversations With 24 Nobel Laureates On Their Life Stories, Advice For Future Generations And What Remains To Be Discovered PDF
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Nobel Life Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their life stories, advice for future generations and what remains to be discovered Dr Stefano Sandrone is an Italian neuroscientist working at Imperial College London. He was selected as a young scientist at the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology and Medicine. He was awarded the Julia Higgins Award and the President’s Award from Imperial College London, the Science Educator Award presented by the Society for Neuroscience, and the H.RichardTyler Award,the LawrenceC.McHenryAwardand the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology. Nobel Life Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their life stories, advice for future generations and what remains to be discovered Stefano Sandrone UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108838283 DOI:10.1017/9781108974301 ©StefanoSandrone2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJBooksLimited,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN978-1-108-83828-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. To my fantastic Grandfather Renato, whose Noble Life and golden advice inspire me on a daily basis Contents Foreword xi Preface xiii 1. The Periodic Table 1 Roald Hoffmann 2. Eureka and Disney World 9 Peter Agre 3. Flying High 19 Richard R. Ernst 4. I'll Show You What a Woman Can Do 27 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ’ 5. Toys Stories 39 Aaron Ciechanover and Edmond H. Fischer 6. Clarity 53 Tim Hunt viii contents 7. Mentoring 67 MartinChalfie,HamiltonO.SmithandJohannDeisenhofer 8. A Stroke of Colour 83 Roger Y. Tsien 9. Impact Factors 89 Randy W. Schekman 10. Know Thyself 103 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 11. Memory and Vision 111 Eric R. Kandel and Torsten N. Wiesel 12. Words and People 125 Daniel Kahneman 13. Christmas and Carol 135 Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Hamilton O. Smith 14. Rocket Science 145 Kary B. Mullis 15. The Big Bang Practice 153 Arno Allan Penzias, Hamilton O. Smith and David J. Gross 16. Houston, We Have a Solution and Many Questions 161 John C. Mather ix contents 17. À la Recherche of Space and Time 171 Brian P. Schmidt 18. Leadership and Society 181 Roger B. Myerson 19. Of Kings and Cabbages 195 Robert M. Solow 20. Foreword to the Future 203 Acknowledgements 207 Appendix: List of Nobel Laureates 209 Credits 211 Index 213
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