Helga Nowotny spoke at almost every conference I have attended in the past few months: ESOF in Dublin (July), Falling Walls in Berlin (November) and now the Nobel Week Dialogue. So third time around, what message does the President of the European Research Council have to tell us? Nowotny compared the new EU funding strategy,…
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Hur ska man berätta om ärftlighet? Eric Lander pratade om den fantastiska utveckling som genetiken gått igenom de senaste femtio åren efter upptäckten av dnaspiralens struktur. Det fick mig att börja tänka på hur dagens kunskap om ärftlighet gör att vi kan vända på perspektiven. Så vad vet vi idag? Vi vet att projektet att…
Leo Szilard – brilliant, peripatetic Hungarian physicist, habitué of hotel lobbies, soothsayer without peer – first grasped the implications of a nuclear chain reaction in 1933 while stepping off the curb at a traffic light in London. Szilard has many distinctions to his name; not only did he file a patent for the first nuclear…
Adam Smith, Editorial Director at Nobel Media, is very busy these days, during the Nobel Week. But nevertheless he took the time for this short interview, to give me some background informations about this new event, the Nobel week Dialogue. The good news first. This is not a nine day wonder. Q: Since 2006 you…
Vill du veta mer om hur livet bygger sig självt och varför kunskapen om det formligen exploderat de senaste åren? Det som tidigare var givna sanningar är inte alls lika självklara längre och själva vokabulären håller på att förändras. På Nobel Week Dialogue kommer nobelpristagare och andra experter att samlas för att diskutera vad den…
Somehow it all boils down to 1953, the year of the double helix. And it’s still worth contemplating how it all happened. Science is often perceived as either a series of dazzling insights or as a marathon. Much of the public recognition of science acknowledges this division; Nobel Prizes for instance are often awarded either…
It is amazing to be invited to blog at the Nobel Week Dialogue this weekend. I have always been interested in science. As a young teenager I had an aviary and kept a detailed account of the bird’s family trees and feather colour, beginning my interest in inheritance and genetics! Fascination wasn’t the only driver behind my path…
I feel a strong personal draw to the topic of the Nobel Week Dialog, the genetic revolution. When I first started graduate school back in 1989, the biological research community was still debating whether sequencing the human genome was a worthwhile use of our resources. The project went ahead and, by the time I graduated,…
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#nwd12 made science good clean fun, with some serious afterthoughts
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The Nobel Week Dialogue has been fantastic so far. I'm filled with confidence and optimism for the future of mankind. #nwd12
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Fantastic talk by Nowotny; adds context and framework for the day. #nwd12
