ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 17 | Published On 05/03/2021 |
The Nobel laureate, the childhood story of whom I am going to tell today, was the recipient of award in Physiology and Medicine in the year 2018. A renowned immunologist by profession, he got this prestigious award for his outstanding contributions in the field of cancer immunotherapy. Yes, I am
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Peter C. Dohorty, till date is the only veterinarian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. In the year 1996 he received Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his landmark discoveries in the field of the specificity of the cell mediated immune response. He is a veterinary pathologist by profession
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Friends, bringing to you yet another interesting story of a great scientist, Richard R. Ernst, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year 1991. Dr. Ernst could achieve this enviable level of professional excellence “for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear
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Science and struggle go together; one who has the persistence to go through tough and tortuous paths to success is usually is recognized by the world. Here, I am going to shed some light in the inspiring story of struggle of a French virologist, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered the Human
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The year that has recently passed by, 2019, has ended with a very positive note for India and specially the Indian academic society. The good news came all the way from Stockholm in the month of October that another son of the soil, Dr. Abhijit Banerjee has been selected for
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The world has lost one of its marvelous scientists this year. On 17th of August, Karry Mullis breathed his last in Newport Beach, California, USA. In the year 1983, he invented a technique for in vitro amplification of DNA in the laboratory known as polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Because of
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Friends, bringing to you yet another story of the life of another famous physicist who was the winner of Nobel Prize in the year 2010 for his groundbreaking experiments on the two-dimensional material graphene. Yes, I am talking about Dr. Andre Geim. Along with Konstantin Novoselov, Andre Geim could produce only
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This is the story of the Nobel Laurate, Ronald Ross during his research on Malaria. Ronald Ross was an India-born British citizen, who was awarded Nobel Prize for his invaluable contribution in identifying the transmission cycle of the mosquito-borne haemo-protozoan disease, malaria. Ronald Ross was born in Almora in the present
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The Nobel laureate, whose story I am going to highlight today, is one of the pioneers in the field of Reproductive Biology; his ground-breaking discovery could bring smiles to millions of infertile couples. Let me cut the long story short and tell about the struggle and success of Sir Robert
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Going through the biography of this Nobel laureate has once again reminded me of a famous quote by someone- “Nothing great was ever accomplished without making sacrifices”. Indeed, it is true not only for this great scientist, but for all who could achieve something extraordinary in life. Sacrifice and success have always
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