Nobel Life: Conversations With 24 Nobel Laureates On Their Life Stories, Advice For Future Generations And What Remains To Be Discovered

235 Pages·2021·1.269 MB·English

by  Stefano Sandrone

Nobel Life
Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates
on their life stories,
advice for future generations
and what remains to be discovered
Dr Stefano Sandrone is an Italian neuroscientist working at
Imperial College London. He was selected as a young scientist
at the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology and
Medicine. He was awarded the Julia Higgins Award and the
President’s Award from Imperial College London, the Science
Educator Award presented by the Society for Neuroscience, and
the H.RichardTyler Award,the LawrenceC.McHenryAwardand
the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American
Academy of Neurology.

Nobel Life
Conversations
with 24 Nobel Laureates
on their life stories,
advice for future generations
and what remains to be discovered
Stefano Sandrone
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To my fantastic Grandfather Renato,
whose Noble Life and golden advice
inspire me on a daily basis

Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
1. The Periodic Table
1
Roald Hoffmann
2. Eureka and Disney World
9
Peter Agre
3. Flying High
19
Richard R. Ernst
4. I'll Show You What a Woman Can Do
27
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
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5. Toys Stories
39
Aaron Ciechanover and Edmond H. Fischer
6. Clarity
53
Tim Hunt
viii contents
7. Mentoring
67
MartinChalfie,HamiltonO.SmithandJohannDeisenhofer
8. A Stroke of Colour
83
Roger Y. Tsien
9. Impact Factors
89
Randy W. Schekman
10. Know Thyself
103
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
11. Memory and Vision
111
Eric R. Kandel and Torsten N. Wiesel
12. Words and People
125
Daniel Kahneman
13. Christmas and Carol
135
Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Hamilton O. Smith
14. Rocket Science
145
Kary B. Mullis
15. The Big Bang Practice
153
Arno Allan Penzias, Hamilton O. Smith and David J. Gross
16. Houston, We Have a Solution
and Many Questions
161
John C. Mather
ix contents
17. À la Recherche of Space and Time
171
Brian P. Schmidt
18. Leadership and Society
181
Roger B. Myerson
19. Of Kings and Cabbages
195
Robert M. Solow
20. Foreword to the Future
203
Acknowledgements 207
Appendix: List of Nobel Laureates 209
Credits 211
Index 213