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On this day in 1904: Werner Forssmann born, won 1956 #NobelPrize for enabling cardiac catheterisation #ThisDayInBiotech

On this day in 1919: Godfrey N Hounsfield born, won 1979 #NobelPrize for inventing X-ray communter assisted tomography #ThisDayInBiotech

On this day in 1905: Osamu Shimomura born, won #NobelPrize for discovering green fluorescent protein #ThisDayInBiotech

On this day in 1878: George Whipple born, won 1934 #NobelPrize for showing value of liver diet for treating pernicious anaemia #ThisDayInBiotech

MIT physicist and 2017 Nobel prize winner Rainer Weiss died this week. I photographed him at home as he learned he won the award for his work detecting gravitational waves with the LIGO system he developed. Later in the day, he spoke at MIT about his research and celebrated the prize with scientific collaborators, students, and the MIT community. It was such a whirlwind, but the things I'll always remember is his wife Rebecca (seen looking in as he receives THE phone call in the first image) offering me toast as we all waited for the news so early in the morning and Rainer's infectious energy and friendliness. During one of his speeches, he told the story about how he dreamed up the idea for the gravitational wave detectors but that everyone he told about it thought he was crazy and wrote off his ideas for decades. Eventually the idea turned into reality and became the largest project funded by the National Science Foundation (and other organizations). In the first 10 or so years, no
gravitational waves were detected, but after the 2015 completion of five-year project to increase the sensitivity of its measurements, the system worked, providing the first measurable evidence that confirmed this part of Einstein's theory of general relativity, almost exactly 100 years after the theory was first presented. The research paper was published in 2016, and he won the award in 2017.

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On this day in 2021 Edmond H Fischer died, won 1992 #NobelPrize for work discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation #ThisDayInBiotech