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Nobel Prize Scientists
Every year, recipients of the Nobel Prize participate in the programs of the Academy of Achievement, sharing their groundbreaking discoveries with the Academy's members and student delegates. Now you can see and hear many of these intimate and fascinating presentations by the world's great thinkers. Biologists and economists, physicists and chemists, physicians and medical researchers -- all share their knowledge in these podcasts, recorded at the Academy's International Achievement Summit. You can learn how they explore the fundamental forces of the universe, plumb the deepest mysteries of subatomic articles, investigate the molecular structures of life itself, pioneer new strategies for the treatment and prevention of disease, or explain the gyrations of a global economy. You can also hear how, from ordinary beginnings, they found their passions in life, how they prepared themselves to excel, and how they made the discoveries that have won them the world's highest honor for achieveme
Episodes
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Saul Perlmutter, Lisa Randall and Adam Riess - Part 1
In this podcast, recorded at the Auberge du Soleil in California’Ŵs Napa Valley during the 2014 International Achievement Summit, three remarkable physicists engage in a group discussion of the origin and nature of the universe. Dr. Adam Riess and Dr. Saul Perlmutter were joint recipients of the...
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Saul Perlmutter, Lisa Randall and Adam Riess - Part 2
In this podcast, recorded at the Auberge du Soleil in California’Ŵs Napa Valley during the 2014 International Achievement Summit, three remarkable physicists engage in a group discussion of the origin and nature of the universe. Dr. Adam Riess and Dr. Saul Perlmutter were joint recipients of the...
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Robert Lefkowitz
In the late 1960s, it was already known that hormones such as adrenalin, histamine, dopamine and serotonin stimulate specific responses in the cells of human beings and other organisms. But the mechanism by which cells perceive and respond to these hormones was shrouded in mystery. In 1969,...
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Louis Ignarro
Although he is renowned in medical circles as "the father of Viagra," the discoveries of Louis Ignarro have profound implications for all circulatory conditions, not least heart disease, the leading cause of death around the world. Nitroglycerin has been used in treating heart disease since the...
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Roger Y. Tsien
Since the 1990s, Roger Tsien has revolutionized the fields of cell biology and neurobiology by designing fluorescent protein molecules to illuminate biochemical processes. The green fluorescent protein GFP, which occurs naturally in the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria, has been used in biochemical...
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John C. Mather and Adam G. Riess - Part 1
The Big Bang theory proposes that the universe we know emerged from a uniformly hot and impenetrable mass of protons, electrons and radiation. But until recently, we knew very little of the first stages of the 13 billion year process in which our cosmos took shape. In 1974, a young…
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John C. Mather and Adam G. Riess - Part 2
The Big Bang theory proposes that the universe we know emerged from a uniformly hot and impenetrable mass of protons, electrons and radiation. But until recently, we knew very little of the first stages of the 13 billion year process in which our cosmos took shape. In 1974, a young…
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Steven Chu - Part 1
Dr. Steven Chu is the United States Secretary of Energy. A distinguished scientist, he received the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light. Prior to his appointment by President Barack Obama in 2009, he was professor of physics, and of...
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Steven Chu - Part 2
Dr. Steven Chu is the United States Secretary of Energy. A distinguished scientist, he received the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light. Prior to his appointment by President Barack Obama in 2009, he was professor of physics, and of...
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Joseph Stiglitz - Part 1
In an era of global economic turmoil, policymakers and ordinary citizens around the world are turning to the writings of Professor Joseph Stiglitz. Virtually alone among economic oracles, Stiglitz predicted as early as 2006 that the bubble in U.S. home prices would lead to a credit crisis and...
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Joseph Stiglitz - Part 2
In an era of global economic turmoil, policymakers and ordinary citizens around the world are turning to the writings of Professor Joseph Stiglitz. Virtually alone among economic oracles, Stiglitz predicted as early as 2006 that the bubble in U.S. home prices would lead to a credit crisis and...
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John Mather
The Big Bang theory proposes that the universe we know emerged from a uniformly hot and impenetrable mass of protons, electrons and radiation. But until recently, we knew very little of the first stages of the 13 billion year process in which our cosmos took shape. In 1974, a young…
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Craig Mello - Part 1
In 1998, an article by Dr. Craig Mello, published in the journal Nature, ignited a revolution in biomedical research. The discovery swept through laboratories around the world, changing the way biomedical researchers work in fields from medicine to agriculture. Science had already identified the...
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Craig Mello - Part 2
In 1998, an article by Dr. Craig Mello, published in the journal Nature, ignited a revolution in biomedical research. The discovery swept through laboratories around the world, changing the way biomedical researchers work in fields from medicine to agriculture. Science had already identified the...
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Science and Faith Panel - Part 1
Four distinguished thinkers join in a provocative discussion of Science and Faith, recorded at the 2006 International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles, California. Two are religous believers and two are self-described atheists. Benjamin Carson is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns...
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Science and Faith Panel - Part 2
Four distinguished thinkers join in a provocative discussion of Science and Faith, recorded at the 2006 International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles, California. Two are religous believers and two are self-described atheists. Benjamin Carson is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns...
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Michael Brown
In 1985, Michael S. Brown, M.D., won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, as well as the Albert Lasker Basic Research Award, the highest honor in American medicine. Dr. Brown, along with his colleague, Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein, was honored discovering the basic mechanisms controlling cholesterol…
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Robert Grubbs
Dr. Robert H. Grubbs was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for an achievement that will lead to the development of new medicines for illness, and new materials for industry and daily living, while dramatically reducing the hazard of chemical waste in the environment. The Swedish Academy...
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Aaron Ciechanover
A physician by training, Dr. Aaron Ciechanover may once have dreamed of winning a Nobel Prize in Medicine, but he could scarcely have imagined his work would someday lead to a Nobel Prize in another discipline altogether. Yet, when the call from Stockholm came, it was to inform him that his work...
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Frank Wilczek
David Gross and Frank Wilczek were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for solving the last great remaining problem in the "Standard Model" of quantum mechanics. By discovering how the nucleus of the atom actually works, they have brought us one giant step closer to the Holy Grail of physics, the...
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Peter Agre
As long ago as the mid-19th century, scientists suspected that the cells of living things must contain specific channels that allow water to pass in and out of the cells, a process essential to all organisms, but it was not until the late 1980s that Dr. Peter Agre succeeded in isolating a…
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John Sulston
When Dr. John Sulston joined the Laboratory of Medical Biology at Cambridge in 1969, few imagined that his work on the tiny nematode worm C. elegans would lead to one of the greatest medical and biological discoveries of the age, but his observations of the genetic regulation of organ development...
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Alexei Abrikosov
Much of the technology we take for granted today, from mobile phone reception to MRI scanning, would be unthinkable without discoveries made by Alexei Abrikosov in Russia half a century ago. In the early 1950s, Abrikosov was one of only a handful of scientists around the world studying the...
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Harold Kroto
Harold Kroto was still a schoolboy when he developed what he calls "an unhealthy interest" in chemistry. "Like almost all chemists," he says, he was "attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of danger." He earned his bachelor's and doctor's...
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Gary Becker - Symposium
In 1992, Gary Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his application of economic theory to sociological issues, particularly his pioneering studies of human capital, discrimination and crime. A Princeton University graduate, he studied with Milton Friedman at the University of…
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Gary Becker - Q &A
In 1992, Gary Becker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his application of economic theory to sociological issues, particularly his pioneering studies of human capital, discrimination and crime. A Princeton University graduate, he studied with Milton Friedman at the University of…
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Aaron Klug
Since the discovery of the DNA molecule in the 1950s, scientists have had a rough understanding of its structure, but for almost 30 years they labored in darkness, unable to see the actual object of their study. It took Sir Aaron Klug to shine a light down this dark corridor. Drawing on the…
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John Vane
Sir John Vane (1927 - 2004) received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that reach into the medicine cabinet of almost every home. For generations, we have known that aspirin relieves pain, but how and why it works remained a baffling mystery until 1971, when Dr. Vane determined…
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Frederick Sanger
Most scientists would consider a Nobel Prize the crowning achievement of a life's work; Frederick Sanger has won this honor not once, but twice. He received his first Nobel in 1958 for successfully determining the exact sequence of the 51 amino acids that make up a molecule of insulin. The method...
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Gerard 't Hooft
Few have done more to tease out the fundamental mysteries of the universe than Dr. Gerard 't Hooft of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. For the last century, as physicists pried further into the atom to better understand this basic building block of…
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Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider
Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr. Carol Greider are pioneers in the study of telomeres, segments of DNA that help determine the number of times a cell divides, an event that affects the life span and health of cells, and the development of some cancers. Carol Greider was a graduate student of Dr....
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William Phillips
Dr. William Daniel Phillips shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them. He was the valedictorian of his high school class in rural Pennsylvania, went on to graduate summa cum laude...
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Gertrude Elion
The chemist Gertrude Elion (1918 -1999) was a trailblazer for women in American science, and the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine. At an early age, her ambition to find new medicines led her to the study of chemistry, but when she graduated from college at age 19 in 1937, she found…
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Douglas Osheroff
Douglas D. Osheroff shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Dave Lee and Robert C. Richardson) for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3. He earned his degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1967 and joined the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell...
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Martin Perl
For 40 years, Martin Perl plumbed the mysteries of matter. His experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center led to the discovery of the "tau lepton," a particle similar to an electron but vastly heavier, that plays a central role in one of the most fundamental questions in physics: "What...
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George Smoot III
The astrophysicist and cosmologist George Fitzgerald Smoot III received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that led to the measurement of microwave background radiation in the universe. A graduate of MIT, Smoot received dual bachelors' degrees in mathematics and physics, and received his...
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Rudy Marcus
Rudolph "Rudy" Arthur Marcus is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A trailblazing researcher, Dr. Marcus is known for his work in many fields of theoretical chemical kinetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for elucidating a thermodynamic and kinetic framework...
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Henry Kendall
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 ’Ŭ February 15, 1999) was a Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist and an ardent advocate for environmental causes. He enrolled in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1945 and served on a troop transport ship on the North Atlantic. Kendall graduated from Amherst...
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Arthur Kornberg
The pioneering biochemist Arthur Kornberg (1918 - 2007) was awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the means by which DNA molecules are duplicated in the bacterial cell -- landmark research that helped advance our understanding of the hereditary process. He was also honored for...
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Jerome Friedman
Jerome Friedman shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague Richard Taylor for experiments proving that protons, neutrons and the other elementary particles of the atom are made of even more fundamental building blocks, known as quarks. Friedman was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of...
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Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague Jerome Friedman for a series of experiments proving demonstrating that protons, neutrons, and the other elementary particles of the atom are in turn composed of smaller entities, known as quarks. Born in the town of Medicine...
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Elias Corey
The world's greatest living chemist, Elias Corey, is one of the great pioneers of modern science. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis," specifically retrosynthetic analysis. Before Corey's work, chemists synthesized...
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Joseph Murray
The pioneering surgeon Dr. Joseph Murray received the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his accomplishments in transplant surgery, including the first transplant of a human kidney from a living donor, an event that opened the door to the entire field of transplantation surgery. He was first…
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Harold Varmus
Harold Elliot Varmus is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama. He was a co-recipient (along with J. Michael Bishop) of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of...
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Hans Dehmelt
Hans Dehmelt received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for his development of the ion trap technique, used for high precision measurement of the electron g-factor. Dehmelt was born in Germany. From his school days in Berlin, he was fascinated by radio technology. He began his university…
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Thomas R. Cech
Nobel Laureate, Thomas Cech, grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1966, he entered Grinnell College where he obtained a B.A. in 1970. In 1975, Cech completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and in the same year, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where...
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995) was an Indian-born American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of…
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Donald Glaser
Donald Glaser is a pioneering American physicist and neurobiologist and, for more than 50 years, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a brilliant young physicist at the University of Michigan, who became frustrated when he tried to observe the tracks of atom particles....
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Paul Berg
Paul Berg is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University’Ŵs School of Medicine and a respected biochemist and geneticist. He is most renowned for his pioneering work involving recombinant DNA, the process of inserting DNA from another species into a molecule, leading to the development of modern...
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Donald Cram
Donald Cram (April 22, 1919 ’Ŭ June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who won the National Medal of Science and shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research that has yielded significant new insights into chemical reactions that take place within human cells, an extraordinary achievement...
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Every year, recipients of the Nobel Prize participate in the programs of the Academy of Achievement, sharing their groundbreaking discoveries with the Academy's members and student delegates. Now you can see and hear many of these intimate and fascinating presentations by the world's great thinkers. Biologists and economists, physicists and chemists, physicians and medical researchers -- all share their knowledge in these podcasts, recorded at the Academy's International Achievement Summit. You can learn how they explore the fundamental forces of the universe, plumb the deepest mysteries of subatomic articles, investigate the molecular structures of life itself, pioneer new strategies for the treatment and prevention of disease, or explain the gyrations of a global economy. You can also hear how, from ordinary beginnings, they found their passions in life, how they prepared themselves to excel, and how they made the discoveries that have won them the world's highest honor for achieveme
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