Over the past century, a female Nobel Prize winner in Physics has emerged roughly once every six decades. Since Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland......
Life is full of infinite possibilities. Kurt Wüthrich, a professor at ETH Zurich, was a passionate competitive athlete who missed his chance at an Olympic gold medal — yet went on ......
Nobel Prize-winning biologist Sir Paul Nurse, a leading authority in genetics and cell biology, discovered a family secret that had been hidden for half a century only in middle ag......
Since its founding, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge has produced an astonishing 16 Nobel laureates. Sir Gregory P. Winter, a Nobel l......
Nobel laureates excel at spotting fundamental problems and devoting years to solving them, even when it means challenging established authorities and accepted knowledge. That is th......
Sir Richard Roberts, who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of RNA splicing, has spent the past decade waging a campaign far removed from the l......
