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“We play ping-pong with ideas. In this way you can go from a wide crazy idea to something that is possible to do.”
- May-Britt Moser's description of her and her collaborators' creative process.
How would you explain a creative process?
#WorldCreativityDay
Did you know Jan and Nikolaas Tinbergen are the only siblings to both be awarded a #NobelPrize ?
Four years after Jan received the 1969 prize in economic sciences, his brother Nico was awarded the medicine prize for work on animal behaviour.
Read more: bit.ly/3jh3gWF
Can you name the only Nobel Prize laureate to be awarded the prize three times?
Click to find out the answer: bit.ly/3vkTKGl
#NobelPrize
#OnThisDay in 1906 Pierre Curie died in a tragic accident. Marie Skłodowska Curie - his wife and research partner - was offered a government pension but she refused. Instead, she continued the pair's studies and in 1911 became the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.
#Didyouknow that the radioactive silvery metal 'Curium' was discovered by chemistry laureate Glenn Seaborg (pictured)?
Seaborg produced and identified curium in July 1944. Seaborg himself also has a chemical element named after him, called Seaborgium.
Literature laureate Doris Lessing has never been one to underestimate the power of books.
Read her full #NobelPrize lecture: bit.ly/2UquTkB
Albert Einstein was awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics 1921 'for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.' He passed away on 18 April 1955, 69 years ago today.
Read Einstein's biography: bit.ly/49Y3cng
'She represents the fight for justice no matter the cost, and her bravery is the best argument against any leader, anywhere in the world, who would let a woman think that it’s better to stay quiet.'
- peace laureate Nadia Murad (Nadia Murad) on fellow laureate Narges