Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and for work in peace. Moreover, in 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences. The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize.
This event will review Nobel Prizes 2019:
| Physics | James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz |
| “For theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star” | |
| Chemistry | John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino |
| “For the development of lithium-ion batteries” | |
| Physiology or Medicine | William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza |
| “For their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability” | |
| Literature (2018) | Olga Tokarczuk |
| “For a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life” | |
| Literature (2019) | Peter Handke |
| “For an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience” | |
| Peace | Abiy Ahmed Ali |
| “For his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea” | |
| Economic Sciences | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer |
| “For their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” |
In this event organized by Science@RCC, the speakers will briefly go through the key aspects of each of the fields’ discoveries that lead to this important distinction, established, in words of Alfred Nobel himself, “for the Greatest Benefit to Mankind”.
Speakers: Alba Carrillo Vega, RCC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital; Diego Chapinal Heras, RCC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of the Classics at Harvard University; Álvar Daza Esteban, Research Associate at the Physics Department of Harvard University; Eva Gil González, RCC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Briseida Sofia Jiménez, RCC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School; Marta Pérez Rando, RCC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MassGeneral Institute of Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) and affiliate of Harvard Medical School; Alfonso Sánchez-Moya, RCC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Government (FAS), Harvard University.
LOCATION:RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA. STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20200310T203000Z DTEND:20200310T223000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR