ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 33 | Published On 24/06/2025 |
Louis J. Ignarro was born on May 31, 1941, in Brooklyn in New York. He is an American pharmacologist celebrated for his pivotal role in revealing nitric oxide (NO) as a crucial signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system. He was the son of an Italian immigrant couple, curious from a young age, and was fascinated
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In this issue, we are highlighting the life story of the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang. Ms. Kang was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for her famous novel “The Vegetarian” in the year 2024. Han Kang was born in the year 1970 in a
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Mario Renato Capecchi was born on October 6, 1937, in Verona, Italy. His early years were marked by hardship. His father, an Italian pilot, was killed during World War II, and his mother, a political activist, was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. As a result, Capecchi spent several years
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For this issue, I am highlighting the life story of May-Britt Moser, a renowned Norwegian neuroscientist, known for her groundbreaking research in spatial memory and navigation. Along with her collaborator and former husband, Edvard Moser, she made significant contributions in understanding how the brain processes spatial information. Their most notable
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The scientist of this issue’s spotlight is Dr. Katalin Kariko, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in the year 2023. Dr. Kariko along with Dr. Drew Weissman invented the technology of mRNA vaccine and could successfully produce Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in record low time and thereby could
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For the first issue of the year 2024, bringing to you the life story of a renowned scientist in the field of chemistry, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in the year 1949 for his contribution in the area of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at
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In this issue, I am going to introduce you to another great scientist in the field of biology, Dr. James Rothman. He was awarded with the Nobel in Physiology and Medicine in the year 2013 for the discovery of the vesicular traffic system inside eukaryotic cells. He shared this award
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Friends, the story that I am sharing in this issue is from the life of an atom bomb survivor at Hiroshima in Japan, who spent rest of her life working for making the world free from nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD). She worked under the banner
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The story of this issue is from the life of an Israeli scientist, Dr. Ada E. Yonath. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for solving the structure of ribosome for the first time. She shared this award with an India-born scientist, Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in the year 2009. Ada
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This interesting story sheds light on the life of Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in the year 2009 for her remarkable contribution relating to the discovery of the enzyme telomerase and for unveiling the how chromosomes can protect themselves from shortening during
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