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Diabetes used to be a death sentence, but that changed in 1922 when a teenager’s miraculous recovery brought hope to millions. Leonard Thompson was a happy child who loved football and other sports. At the age of eleven, he was diagnosed with diabetes, a then incurable
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Did you know that new literature laureate Anne Carson said she owes her “whole career and happiness” to her high school Latin teacher? Her Nobel Prize-awarded work is often inspired by Greek literature, while her translations often give a contemporary twist to ancient works.
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On this day 41 years ago, a group of scientists published a journal article only two pages long that revolutionised nanotechnology. They had stumbled upon a strange football-shaped molecule. Their discovery of C60 known as buckminsterfullerene or the “buckyball” scored them a Nobel Prize.
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In May 1921, Fredrick Banting met his research assistant Charles Best in John Macleod's lab to begin their experiments with insulin. In January 1922, the first person received an insulin injection. By 1923, insulin was commercially available. Banting and Macleod received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. #WorldDiabetesDay
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Physics laureate Saul Perlmutter speaks about truth and the importance of keeping an open mind. #NobelPrize
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