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Prof. Avi Vigerzon, on the left, and the president of the Technion, Prof. Uri Sion

The Turing Prize, the "Nobel of Computer Science", will be awarded to Technion graduate Prof. Avi Wigderzon

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Last year, Prof. Wigderzon, who also received the Abel Award, received an honorary doctorate from the Technion
Harvard University. Photo: © Jiawangkun | Dreamstime.com

Seven Nobel laureates have appealed to the heads of Harvard, MIT and Pennsylvania over the hesitancy in dealing with anti-Semitism

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The Seven expressed their concern over the hesitant responses of the institutions' leadership to condemn the calls for genocide
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize for scientists who managed to create quantum dots - the technology behind the QLED screens

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Today, quantum dots, which are tiny nanoparticles whose size determines their properties, illuminate computer monitors and TV screens when these are based on QLED technology. In the field of medicine, quantum dots are currently used
From the left, Prof. Franz Krause, and Prof. Anne L'Ollier during the ceremony of receiving the Wolf Prize from the President of Israel Yitzhak Herzog. Photo courtesy of the Wolf Foundation

Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023 to researchers who managed to measure tiny and fast processes in electrons

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three researchers: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for "the development of their methods that produce short attosecond pulses
Figure 1. Methods for vaccine production before the corona epidemic. (Courtesy of the Committee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine): Use of a weakened or inactive virus and a recombinant protein (the virus) that is transferred to the body via a viral vector and activates the immune system. Courtesy of the Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 for the pioneers in the field of mRNA who accelerated the vaccines for Corona

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Kariko and Weissman immediately realized that their discovery was of enormous significance for the possible use of messenger RNA in medicine. These important findings were published in 2005, 15 years before the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.
2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering mRNA applications for corona vaccines

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The two, Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, were informed about a month ago that they had won the HARVEI Award at the Technion
Robot scientist. Illustration using artificial intelligence software. Definitions: Avi Blizovsky

AI scientist managed to reproduce Nobel-winning discoveries without intention

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AI-Descartes, a new AI scientist, successfully reproduced a Nobel Prize-winning work using logical reasoning and symbolic regression to find exact equations. The system is effective against real-world data and small data sets, with the future goal

Fundamental concepts in quantum physics: Bell's inequality - which was the basis of the Nobel Prize

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Inspired by the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, we will discuss Bell's theorem without introducing formulas and inequalities. In this article we will illustrate how experiments with entangled particles contradict the assumption that there are hidden variables and that quantum mechanics indeed
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three chemical waves Click bioorthogonal chemistry to improve the precision of medicines

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022 was awarded to three scientists working in the field of synthetic chemistry: Caroline Bertuzzi (Carolyn R. Bertozzi), Morten P. Meldal (Morten P. Meldal) as well as Karl Barry Sharpless (KarlBarrySharpless), thanks to "the development of
Quantum entanglement. From the explanation on the Nobel Prize website.

Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022 to three scientists in the field of quantum entanglement

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Figure 3. Pabo's discoveries provided important information regarding the population of the world at the time Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and spread to the rest of the world. Neanderthals lived in western Eurasia while Denisovans lived in eastern Eurasia. Breeding between the different species occurred when the Homo sapiens spread across the continent, leaving behind treasured remains in DNA. Illustration from the explanation for the 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize for Medicine to the Swede Svante Pavo, the discoverer of the Denisovan man and the decipherer of the genome of extinct human species

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Santa Febo is a Swedish evolutionary geneticist, one of the founding fathers of the field of paleogenetics, leader of the international project to map the Neanderthal human genome, and co-discoverer of Denisovan man
Prof. Roger Kornberg. From Wikimedia

Nobel's son-in-law Prof. Roger Kornberg was elected to the Israeli Academy of Sciences; Five of the ten chosen ones are women

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The Academy now has 143 members
Graph using data from Angrist and Kruger (1991). People with 12 years of education have 12 percent higher incomes than people with 11 years of education. People with 16 years of education have a 65% higher income compared to people with 11 years of education. Source: Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel laureates, including the Israeli Joshua Angrist, were able to prove the causal relationship between apparently unrelated events

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Prof. Ingrist Natural experiments help answer important questions for society. For example: people born in the fourth quarter of the school year have more years of education and higher income
glass. Illustration: shutterstock

Spin-glass: the quantum physics behind the discovery that won Frisee the Nobel

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The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this year to Giorgio LaFerrisi for his scientific contribution in understanding complex systems alongside climate researchers. The prize committee decided to focus on the solution he proposed to the spin-glass problem on the grounds that this model is able to explain phenomena
a molecule. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers who developed catalysts for drug discovery

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2021 was awarded to two researchers: Benjamin List (Benjamin List) and David MacMillan (David WC MacMillan) for "the development of asymmetric organocatalysis". (the news will be updated)
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"Nobel winners Manaba and Hasselman have brought enormous benefit to humanity by providing a solid physical basis for our understanding of climate"

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An accessible explanation of the science behind the Nobel Prize in Physics won by Syukuro Manaba from Princeton University and Klaus Hasselmann from the Max Planck Institute who perfected the climate models as published on the Nobel Prize website. Translation: Dr
From right to left: Reot Yanon Berman- Executive Director of the Wolf Foundation, Prof. Dan Shechtman- Chairman of the Wolf Foundation, Prof. Giorgio Parizzi, Rector Antonella Polimani, Dror Idar- Ambassador of Israel in Italy

Nobel followed Wolf again in the same year: and this time Prof. Giorgio Frisi

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The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded today to Prof. Giorgio Parisi is just a small number of the names of Nobel Prize winners over the years, who previously won the prestigious Wolf Prize, of the Wolf Foundation.
The climate crisis. Illustration: shutterstock_

The climate crisis reaches the Nobel Prize in Physics: two of the developers of the climate models and a researcher of complexity won the Nobel 2021

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Half of the prize was awarded to Syokuro Manaba from Princeton University and Klaus Hasselman, the Max Planck Institute, who perfected the climate models, and the Italian Giorgio Frisi, who deals with the transition between simple and complex systems * Frisi said at the announcement event:
Illustration on behalf of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, describing the discovery of the 2021 prize winners. © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Matthias Karlén

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the discoverers of temperature and touch receptors in the skin

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David Julius and Erdem Patapotian (born in Beirut, Lebanon) discovered the receptors TRPV1, TRPM8 made it possible to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate nerve impulses that allow us to sense and adapt to the world around us
Research Professor Aharon Chachanover. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Nobel Prize winner Prof. Chechenover on science and ethics in the times of Corona: new-old challenges

Prof. Aharon Chachanover lectured on the burning issue, mainly he warns about the danger of resistance to vaccines (video)
On the right, Jennifer Daudena and Emmanuel Charpentier. Illustration: © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

Women win Nobel Prizes in science - are we at the beginning of a trend?

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The number of women who received the Nobel Prize in physics increased from three to four, and in chemistry from five to seven (in both cases including Marie Curie). Is this a coincidence or the start of a trend?
Photo of Roger Penrose winning the Wolf Prize with Stephen Hawking at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Photo credit Wolf Foundation

Nobel laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman: "Penrose has an indirect connection to my discovery" The winners in chemistry developed an "explosive" in biology

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Prof. Shechtman, chairman of the Wolf Foundation, also tells about the ratio of one-third of the Wolf Prize winners in the respective fields who later win Nobel Prizes, and why there are such large differences in the gaps. Crisper, like nitroglycerin, can be used
Prof. Reinhart Genzel at the Parnell Observatory, part of the Southern European Observatory project in Chela. PR photo, ESO

Nobel laureate Reinhart Ganzel is a great friend of Israeli science

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Says Prof. Hagai Netzer from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University who wrote dozens of joint articles with Ganzel
Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the scientists who developed the CRISPR "genetic numbers" immediately after the Wolf award

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Illustration of the galaxy and the giant black hole at its center. The black hole converts some of the matter it absorbs into energetic radiation (shaded in blue), while the galaxy continues to form new stars (purple areas). [Image credit: Michael Helfenbein/Yale University - M. Helfenbein / Yale University]

Roger Penrose and the two black hole detectors at the center of the galaxy won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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