Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physics. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 October 2017

Nobel Prizes in the Sciences 2017


It's an exciting time as the Nobel Prizes are announced for 2017, here's a summary of those awarded in the Sciences. 


The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2017
This was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

For an overview of the topic, it's worth having a read of ACS article Breaking the Crystal Ceiling: Cryo-electron microscopy goes high resolution.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 
This was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 was awarded jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".



If you're inspired by these scientists and want to find more examples of their work, you can do an author search using a database like Scopus, as shown in this short screencast - do an author search in Scopus

From this search, you can see how many articles this author has published, who they have worked with, where they have published. You can also set up alerts to be notified when this author publishes a new article. Fancy. 

Who knows, one day you might be receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry one day!






Thursday, 27 April 2017

Event: What does it mean to decolonise Science?

Birkbeck's Centre for Transformative Practice in Learning and Teaching has organised an
event with 
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of Washington) as the main speaker. The topic being presented is: What does it mean to decolonise Science? 

The event is free and is happening on Friday 5th May, 15:00-17:00 at Birkbeck in room MAL 416. Please register to attend the lecture.