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Malaria

by Andrew Spielman
Malaria
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1908 views
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Professor of Tropical Public Health, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health is one of the world?s experts on vector born infections such as malaria and dengue which constitute a heavy and increasing burden....

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00:57:00

Pathophysiologist

by Gustav Born
Pathophysiologist
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1827 views
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In this video interview Gustav Born jokes that all his life he has been the son of a famous scientist (Max Born) and then later he became uncle to a famous film star (Olivia Newton John), he is also directly related to Martin Luther, Ben Elton and nu....

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Masers and Lasers

by Charles Townes
Masers and Lasers
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2024 views
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Charles Hard Townes received the Nobel Prize for Phyiscs in 1964 'for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle' He was award half of the P....

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Nuclear magnetic resonance and macromolecules

by Kurt Wurthrich
Nuclear magnetic resonance and macromolecules
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1813 views
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Kurt Wurthrich was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 'for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution' He now shares his life between his....

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Atmospheric Chemistry

by Sherwood Rowland
Atmospheric Chemistry
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2261 views
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In this interview Sherwood Rowland talks about Ozone depletion and the effect of CFCs on Ozone and Global Warming (Greenhouse Warming where infrared radiation is trapped). He explains the chemistry of Ozone depletion and the history of what led to th....

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Climate change

by Sherwood Rowland
Climate change
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1657 views
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This presentation gives Rowland's current (2006) opinion/impression of Global Warming. He says that the first legislated discussion that he remembers in the US senate on the Global Warming was in 1986 and the looming problem and whether governments s....

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00:29:00

Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Ion Channels

by Roderick MacKinnon
Structural and Mechanistic Studies of Ion Channels
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1964 views
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In this interview MacKinnon, Nobel Prizewinner in Chemistry, 2003, discusses Max Perutz and then his own research. He says his course into science was quite sequacious and he really didn't start science until he was about 30 as he had a strong intere....

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Crystallographic electron microscopy

by Aaron Klug
Crystallographic electron microscopy
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2413 views
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Born in Lithuania, Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1982, tells us about his early life and education growing up in Durban, South Africa. He developed an early interest in physiology and anatomy but did not find his teacher very inspiring and ga....

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Extremely Fast Chemical Reactions

by Manfred Eigen
Extremely Fast Chemical Reactions
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2326 views
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This interview starts with Eigen (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1967) talking about his early work for his PhD thesis on fast reactions and measuring the specific heat of heavy water. He says that light water had already been measured in classical chemis....

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Discovery and development of conductive polymers.

by Alan MacDiarmid
Discovery and development of conductive polymers.
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 12053 views
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Alan MacDiarmid was the first New Zealand born and educated Nobel Prize (Chemistry, 2000) winner since Maurice Wilkins in 1962. In this interview MacDiarmid talks about the science that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for, the discovery of the first c....

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The Physics of Light

by Roy Glauber
The Physics of Light
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1797 views
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When asked how does he think about the problems of the physics of light, Glauber says that it is an off-shoot of particle physics. He says that he has mainly worked in nuclear physics, quantum electro-dynamics and the quantum theoretical version of M....

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00:52:00

Structural and Functional Organization of the Cell

by Christian de Duve
Structural and Functional Organization of the Cell
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 4367 views
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Interview with the Nobel Prizwinner for Medicine,1974

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Conductive Polymers

by Alan Heeger
Conductive Polymers
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 3335 views
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Heeger says that he started as a physicist and thinks like a physicist but got interested in the late 70's in the study of materials. For him it was a natural evolution to move to polymers and in 1975 he began working with Alan MacDiarmid and became ....

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Restriction Enzymes

by Werner Arber
Restriction Enzymes
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1582 views
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Werner Arber won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1978

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00:39:00

The interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis

by Marshall Nirenberg
The interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1886 views
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This interview starts with Nirenberg (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968) giving his recollections of his school years. He remembers going down into some limestone caves in Florida at the age of 13-14. It was full of fossilized large animal bones. In fact....

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John Cornforth

by John Cornforth
John Cornforth
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2188 views
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Video of John 'Kappa' Cornforth who was born in Australia, and has been profoundly deaf since his teens. He moved into the field of organic chemistry at Sydney University where he met his wife Rita. Together they moved to Oxford and had a profound in....

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Millie Dresselhaus

by Millie Dresselhaus
Millie Dresselhaus
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1805 views
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Mildred Dresselhaus was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in a poor section of the Bronx. She was a Fullbright Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (UK) in 1951-52 and obtained a PhD at the University of Chicago in 1958. Mill....

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00:56:00

Richard Ernst

by Richard Ernst
Richard Ernst
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1717 views
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr), a powerful technique for determining molecular structure, has totally revolutionised chemistry. From its inception half a century ago, its potential as an analytical tool for identifying compounds was clear, albeit l....

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Walter Kohn

by Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1836 views
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Walter Kohn is a condensed matter theorist who has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the electronic structure of materials. He played the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which has revolutionized scientis....

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Ram Rao

by Ram Rao
Ram Rao
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2121 views
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Prof. C.N.R. Rao was born and brought up in Bangalore, India where he developed his interest in science. He studied for his Ph.D at Purdue University in the US but returned to India to continue his career. He has had numerous visiting positions abroa....

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Science is Knowledge and Knowledge is Power

by Tony Benn
Science is Knowledge and Knowledge is Power
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1998 views
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In a lively and entertaining interview, former UK Minister for Science Tony Benn discusses the interaction between scientists and politicians in an interview with Sir Harry Kroto. Benn, having spent a life-time as a leading politician closely associa....

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Nicolaas Bloembergen

by Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1357 views
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Interview with Nicolaas Bloembergen, USA, who shared half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1981 with Arthur Leonard Schawlow, USA 'for their contributions to the development of laser spectroscopy' He discusses the technical developments of his work ....

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Leo Esaki

by Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki
for 18-22 and upwards,
Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2636 views
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Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who shared half the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever for the discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. The second half of the prize was awarded to Brian David Josephson. He is known for his i....

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Cosmic X-ray sources

by Riccardo Giacconi
Cosmic X-ray sources
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 6302 views
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Riccardo Giacconi , USA was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for 'for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.

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