A powerful memoir from Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines.
This year again, European and EU-funded scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize.
💡 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 Anne L'Huillier and 🇭🇺 🇦🇹 Ferenc Krausz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental methods to generate attosecond pulses of light.
🔬 🇭🇺 Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Her discovery helped EU grantee Ugur Sahin develop one of the first COVID-19 vaccines.
Since 2002, the #EU has funded at least 29 Nobel Prize winners.
"By combining innovative methods in economic history with an economic approach, Goldin has demonstrated that several different factors have historically influenced – and still influence – the supply of and demand for female labour. ... To achieve these insights, Goldin looked back over two hundred years."
Big congrats to Ohio State University emeritus physics professor Pierre Agostini for winning 1/3rd of the prize this year for is work in attosecond physics. I guess you could say we're excited for him! @edutooters#iteachphysics#NobelPrize
Shocking story about mRNA pioneer/Nobel winner Katalin Karikó, whose early advisor at Temple tried to have her deported & derailed her career because she dared to look for a better-paying job.
Later, UPenn demoted her, then forced her out, because her research wasn't bringing in enough funding. #NobelPrize#science [HT Paul Novosad]
Dr Karikó's case lays bare so many of the institutional, disciplinary, and social background inequities that many researchers (natural and social sciences) face.
The vast majority will never be duly recgonised like she, rightfully, finally has.
Today in Labor History September 9, 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright was born. He is most famous for novels like Anna Karina, and War and Peace. He chose the name for the latter after reading French anarchist Proudhon’s publication called War and Peace. Tolstoy also wrote many short stories, an autobiography and many works of nonfiction. After witnessing a public execution in 1857, he wrote: "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere." In the 1870s, he experienced a profound spiritual awakening, which led him to become a Christian anarchist and pacifist, and which he wrote about in his non-fiction work Confession (1882). He also wrote about nonviolent resistance in The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), which influenced Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Wittgenstein. He was repeatedly nominated for Nobel prizes in both literature and peace.