Updates
October 5, 2023:
The WSJ article on the Nobel Prize. One word: baloney. Unless he's a fly on the wall, he has no clue what the Nobel Prize committees are doing.
The WSJ article on the Nobel Prize. Outstanding article.
For me? The big takeaway — how incredibly amazing this country is. It would be interesting to see the long list of folks nominated for the various “science” Nobel Prizes.
The Fields Medal (for Math) is awarded every four years. It was last awarded last year, 2022. Of the last twenty winners, only seven were “from the US.”
The Nobel Prize for literature this year went to a Norwegian.
“Research" in math and literature, unlike research in physics, medicine, and chemistry, do not require any lab support. Research in the sciences does not require lab support per se, but generally speaking, lab support is needed to prove or disprove purported advances in PM&C.
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Global:
- Tech: Israel.
- Medicine: US. 2023 Nobel — both from Penn State.
- Physics: US. 2023 Nobel — one of three — Ohio State.
- Chemistry: US
- Literature:
- Peace: woke
Biggest story today: Nobel Prize in medicine. It's good to see some standards still hold. This was an incredibly important "statement."
Katalin Karikó (Hungarian: Karikó Katalin; born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in RNA-mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro-transcribed mRNA for protein therapies. Karikó laid the scientific groundwork for mRNA vaccines against major obstacles and scepticism in the scientific community. Karikó co-founded and was CEO of RNARx from 2006 to 2013. Since 2013, she has been associated with BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, first as a vice president and promoted to senior vice president in 2019. She was also an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She later became a professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary.
Drew Weissman (born September 7, 1959 is an American physician-scientist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for his contributions to RNA biology. His work, which won him a Nobel Prize in medicine in 2023, helped enable development of mRNA vaccines, the best known of which are those for COVID-19 produced by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna. Weissman is the inaugural Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation, and professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). He and his research colleague Katalin Karikó have received numerous awards including the presigious Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. He received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Karikó "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19."
Why was this so important? For our children: the iGen, the Z gen, the Alpha Gen. Especially our daughters and granddaughters.
From my "Covid library." I have to go back to these two books.
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible, Dr Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer, c. 2022.
The Vaccine: Inside The Race to Conquer the Covid-19 Pandemic, Joe Miller with Dr Özlem Türeci and Dr Uğur Şahin, c. 2022. Link here.
