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Tom Morello, guitarist with Rage Against The Machine, congratulates his former bandmate Carolyn Bertozzi on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry yesterday.
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Funnily enough, another winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry yesterday is Barry Sharpless, who was already on my list of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners that I've met, even though he won his 1st Nobel Prize a year after I met him at a conference in France in 2000.
This means that I've now met the 1996, 2001, 2017, 2021 and 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners, and 5 Nobel laureates in total (as I met Stanley Prusiner, the 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, playing pool in a bar in Colorado in 2004...).
I've also met Jocelyn Bell Burnell at a seminar at Glasgow University shortly before the pandemic. Her work led directly to the discovery of radio pulsars and earned her (male) boss the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, and arguably she should have shared the prize too.
This means that I've now met the 1996, 2001, 2017, 2021 and 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners, and 5 Nobel laureates in total (as I met Stanley Prusiner, the 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, playing pool in a bar in Colorado in 2004...).
I've also met Jocelyn Bell Burnell at a seminar at Glasgow University shortly before the pandemic. Her work led directly to the discovery of radio pulsars and earned her (male) boss the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, and arguably she should have shared the prize too.
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Shameless House of the Dragon promo, during baseball game coverage, has been drawing some heat
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Dundee hotel guest admits swinging on £50,000 chandelier
Ross MacPhail swung on the chandelier 60ft above the reception area of a hotel in Dundee.
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Dundee hotel guest admits swinging on £50,000 chandelier
Ross MacPhail swung on the chandelier 60ft above the reception area of a hotel in Dundee.www.bbc.co.uk
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Attorney who fought to overturn Florida's mandatory helmet laws for motorbikes in 2000 dies... and you can write the rest of it yourself.
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Attorney who fought Florida helmet laws died in motorcycle crash while not wearing one
Ron Smith, 66, and his girlfriend, 62-year-old Brenda Jeanan Volpe, were on their way to a funeral with a group of riders from the American Legion.
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Hey, they were on their way to a funeral!Attorney who fought to overturn Florida's mandatory helmet laws for motorbikes in 2000 dies... and you can write the rest of it yourself.
Attorney who fought Florida helmet laws died in motorcycle crash while not wearing one
Ron Smith, 66, and his girlfriend, 62-year-old Brenda Jeanan Volpe, were on their way to a funeral with a group of riders from the American Legion.
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The Great Heavy Metal Hoax
This down-on-his-luck headbanger fabricated a persona, faked a tour and promoted himself as a hard-rock savior
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