Wonders of nature

I am going to attend another talk by a Chemistry Nobel Laurate, Aaron Ciechanover. He will give a public lecture about the story of protein who died to keep us alive. I seriously can't wait to experience this! =D

Come to think about it. I have attended and interacted with many Nobel Laurates. I think they are not as 'unreachable' as we thought so. Once during my year one in my undergraduate studies, I attended a talk by Tim Hunt about a protein called cyclin. I emailed the Nobel Laurate, afterwards, telling about how amazed I was and I requested him to share a few experiences about how his career led him to the Nobel Prize. To my amazement, he replied and shared a few short stuff with me.

I was really honored at that time. Despite his busy schedules and all that, he still could find a time to reply to my nonsense, unimportant email. I was really amazed. I have to admit, sadly, that some of my NUS lecturers cannot do that and I was terribly disappointed as a student.

I have met following Nobel Laurates (and the list will get longer and longer! I want to know more about the people who have contributed to mankind, who have changed the world to be a better world to live in and someday, hopefully, I will be able to do the same):

• Sir Richard Timothy Hunt - Cell cycle regulation - "One dreams, rather than aims, perhaps!"
  
• Chen Ning Yang - Symmetry in Nature - "Listen to J.S.Bach 'The Musical Offering', than you will able to listen the symmetry"
  
• Makoto Kobayashi - Discovery of Antimatter - "The universe started by the violation of a law"
  
• Yoshihide Kozai - Astronomical Telescope - "How do you detect Black Hole?"
  
• Yuan Tseh Lee - Challenge of 21st Century and Dynamics of Chemical Reactions and Photochemical Process - "We live in a half-globalized world"
  
• Koichi Tanaka - Enhancing Creativity by Ignoring Scientific Classifications - "Please don't call me Prof. or Dr., I am not any of them, I am Electrical Engineer. Call me Engineer Tanaka"
• Leo Esaki - In a Half Century of Research, What did I learn? and How to win Nobel Prize? - "You know how do I cope with discouragement during my scientist days? Find a girlfriend"
  
• Masatoshi Koshiba - Neutrino, Neutrino, Neutrino - "Do you know why the title of this lecture is 'Neutrino, Neutrino, Neutrino'?"
• Ryoji Noyori - Chemistry: The Key to our Future - "Do you know how to methylate a cyclohexanone? If you answered me, LDA and methyl halide, then you are still in the 19th century Chemistry"
  
• Aaron Ciechanover - Why do our proteins have to die so we shall live?

Looks like I am going to be in the excited state soon :)

My hall had just organized a Dinner and Dance last weekend. There was this trivial question: If you were transported back to 70s. Who would you bring back to this day?

Richard Feynman
Seriously, you will not regret it. He is a genius and a joker.

peace
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