On this day in 1909: Rita Levi-Montalcini born, won 1986 #NobelPrize for discovery of nerve growth factor #ThisDayInBiotech
Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, l’écoféministe colombienne reçoit le Prix Goldman, le « Nobel de l’environnement »
#Ecofeminisme #nobelprize
https://www.humanite.fr/environnement/ecologie/yuvelis-natalia-morales-blanco-lecofeministe-colombienne-recoit-le-prix-goldman-le-nobel-de-lenvironnement
Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, l’écoféministe colombienne reçoit le Prix Goldman, le « Nobel de l’environnement »

Lundi 20 avril, Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, la jeune militante écoféministe colombienne, issue d’une famille de pêcheurs, a reçu le prix Goldman – le Nobel de la cause environnementale.

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'Chances of you living 50yr are very small': #TheoreticalPhysicist explains why humanity won't survive to see forces unified
#NobelPrize #physicist #DavidGross, received $3M Special Breakthrough Prize in #Physics, talks quest to unite all forces and why humanity might not see unified theory
"Currently, I spend part of my time trying to tell people… chances of you living 50 years are very small. Due to the danger of #nuclearwar, you have about 35yr"
https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/the-chances-of-you-living-50-years-are-very-small-theoretical-physicist-explains-why-humanity-likely-wont-survive-to-see-all-the-forces-unified
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'The chances of you living 50 years are very small': Theoretical physicist explains why humanity likely won't survive to see all the forces unified

Live Science spoke with Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross, who recently received the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, about the quest to unite all the forces and why humanity might not live to see a unified theory.

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True story, on of the #nobelprize winners dissolved his gold medal in acid so that Nazis would not loot it, after the war he extracted the gold and had the medal recast

On this day in 2003: Bernard Katz died, won #NobelPrize for discoveries concerning humoral transmittors #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1940: Joseph L. Goldstein born, won 1985 #NobelPrize for working out metabolism of cholesterol #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1905: Birthday George H Hitchings, 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech

Today in Labor History April 17, 2014: Journalist and author Gabriel Garcia Marquez died on this day. Affectionately known as Gabo, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Two of his most famous books were, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). Garcia Marquez was a socialist and an anti-imperialist, and critical of U.S. policy in Latin America.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #GabrielGarciaMarquez #columbia #author #writer #fiction #nobelprize #books #Literature @bookstadon

On this day in 1994: Roger W Sperry died, won 1981 #NobelPrize for showing the specilisation of the two parts of the brain #ThisDayInBiotech
On this day in 1976: Carl P H Dam died, won 1943 Nobel Prize for discovering vitamin K importance in blood-clotting #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech