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A mechanism has been discovered that causes sleep apnea in sick children

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One of the diseases resulting from such mutations in the PHOX2B gene is the disease CCHS. This is a rare and life-threatening syndrome in which babies, children and adults stop breathing as soon as they fall asleep. The patients must be connected to ventilators in order not to die in their sleep
Rosalind Franklin during her stay in France. Photo: from Wikipedia

New findings on Rosalind Franklin's role in discovering the structure of DNA

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An article published in Nature details Franklin's part in discovering the "backbone" of the DNA molecule. However due to the competition between the groups she avoided publishing a large part of them herself, also Watson and Crick had access to her experiments
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 'click' chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry". This is Sharples' second win in chemistry - the previous one was in 2001
On the right, Jennifer Daudena and Emmanuel Charpentier. Illustration: © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

"It was difficult for Emmanuel Charpentier to publish because no one was interested in infectious diseases as long as there was no epidemic"

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This is what Prof. Harmona Sorek from the Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University says in an interview with the Scientist website, who is happy about the decision to award Emmanuel Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Wolf Prize last year. Now Charpentier is establishing the Max Planck Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin with high budgets, and is also contributing to corona research
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. Schechtman, 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 for good things, but can also cause damage in the wrong hands.
Star S2 orbiting the black hole at the center of the galaxy - Sagittarius (Sagittarius) *A, one of the proofs for the existence of the black hole at the center of the galaxy, from the research of 2020 Nobel Prize winners Reinhart Ganzel and Andrea Gas. From Wikipedia. By ESO/M. Kornmesser - https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1825b/ , CC BY 1825, Link

"Without the observations of Ganzel and Gas, the whole subject of black holes would have remained theoretical"

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Winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Bannister Goodenough, Manley Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for lithium-ion battery developers

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The location of the planet pegasi-51b, the first planet discovered outside the solar system. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

The discovery of planets outside the solar system - changed our perception of the universe

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In this map, built on the basis of the observations of the Planck spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency, you can see the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the earliest observable light of the universe, and it gives us the best picture ever of the universe in its early childhood. The blue areas in the sky represent points where the temperature of the background radiation, and in any case also of the early universe, is lower, and the red areas reflect warmer places. Proponents of the inflationary theory, which holds that the universe expanded rapidly in its early moments, argue that the pattern of hot and cold spots is consistent with this idea. However, the theory can actually produce any pattern, and in most of its versions it produces larger temperature differences than this map shows. Moreover, if inflation did occur, the background radiation should include evidence for cosmic gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime caused by the primordial stretch, but it does not. Instead, the Planck data reveal that the true story of our universe's history is still far from over. Source: ESA and the Planck Collaboration.

Nobel laureate Prof. Peebles revealed the secrets behind cosmic radiation

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Yael Rosh 2018, Rector of Achava Academic College. PR photo

Third overall winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and fifth in Chemistry: Where have the top female scientists gone?

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Nobel Prize Coin for Chemistry. Source: Adam Baker.

Israelis, Jews and winning international awards

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From right to left: Prof. Emeritus Rainer Weiss, Ian Driver (brother of Prof. Emeritus Ronald Driver), Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie and Prof. Emeritus Kip Stefan Thorn. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson.

From the Harvey Prize at the Technion - to the Nobel Prize in Stockholm

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Technion campus. Source: Technion / Israel Institute of Technology, Wikimedia.

The Technion was ranked in the top ten of the "Nobel Universities" in the sciences

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The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a photo from 2012. From Wikipedia

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, in an interview he gave to the website Hadaan in 2008: Scientists must not cooperate with dangerous regimes

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The process of repair through nucleotide excision that earned its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoverers of DNA repair mechanisms

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Prof. Aryeh Warshel, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Photo courtesy of him.

Prof. Aryeh Warshel in an interview with the Hidaan site: "I always settled for the first formula in the book, and entered it into the computer." First part of the series

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Chemical weapons have been used for 100 years, only now have we remembered that stopping them is worth a Nobel Peace Prize

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drug search. Illustration: shutterstock

Transferring the experiments to the computerized space - a popular explanation of the science of the 2013 Nobel laureates in chemistry

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The recording of the announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine: the discoverers of the intracellular transport system James Rothman, Randy Schakman and Thomas Sudhoff

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Prof. Ada Yonat, winner of the Nobel Prize for deciphering the spatial structure of the ribosome. Photo: Miki Korn, Weizmann Institute of Science, Wikipedia

Noble blue-white

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Prof. Dan Shechtman receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the King of Sweden, December 10, 2011. Screenshot: from a Channel 1 broadcast

Prof. Sven Lydin from the Swedish Academy of Sciences: Prof. Shechtman's case demonstrates that the dwarf standing on the giant's shoulders sees and the giant is blind

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From left to right: Professor Shechtman, Ambassador Benny Dagan, Irit Dagan and Tzipi Shechtman in the lobby of the Grand Hotel. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Tonight at 17:00 the ceremony of awarding the Nobel Prize to Prof. Danny Shechtman

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Lars Heikenstein at the press conference at the Nobel Foundation. Photo: Technion spokespeople

The CEO of the Nobel Foundation on Professor Shechtman's win: "The cases where a person wins the prize alone, without partners, are rare, and they will be rarer in the future"

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Milestones in the expansion of the universe. From Wikipedia

The cold end of the universe

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The Cosmological Constant: Einstein's Serious Mistake That Led to the Nobel Prize in Physics Part II

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