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  • 17 - À la Recherche of Space and Time

  • Stefano Sandrone
  • Book:
    Nobel Life
    Published online:
    03 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 171-180

  • Summary

    Professor Brian Schmidt, on the Nobel Prize website, until recently, it was written: ‘Brian P. Schmidt has not submitted an autobiography.’ Therefore, one of the few official biographies available was your Twitter one. Your popular account, @cosmicpinot, says: ‘An overly busy Cosmologist who is Vice-Chancellor of the ANU [Australian National University], Wine maker, Dad & Husband. 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics.’ We need to know more about you. As contrapasso, let’s start with some questions from a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire.

  • 4 - I’ll Show You What a Woman Can Do

  • Stefano Sandrone
  • Book:
    Nobel Life
    Published online:
    03 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 27-38
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    The first cases of AIDS date back to 1981. Only two years later, together with your mentor Luc Montagnier, you isolated the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causing AIDS. For this achievement, the two of you won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008. Almost thirty-three million people have died from AIDS-related conditions worldwide, and more than seventy-five million people have become infected with HIV.

Nobel Life
  • Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their Life Stories, Advice for Future Generations and What Remains to be Discovered
  • Stefano Sandrone
  • Published online:
    03 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021
  • Few people have changed the world like the Nobel Prize winners. Their breakthrough discoveries have revolutionised medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Nobel Life consists of original interviews with twenty-four Nobel Prize winners. Each of them has a unique story to tell. They recall their eureka moments and the challenges they overcame along the way, give advice to inspire future generations and discuss what remains to be discovered. Engaging and thought-provoking, Nobel Life provides an insight into life behind the Nobel Prize winners. A call from Stockholm turned a group of twenty-four academics into Nobel Prize winners. This is their call to the next generations worldwide.

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