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The Kavli Prize recognizes scientists for breakthrough discoveries in #astrophysics, #nanoscience and #neuroscience – the big, the small and the complex.
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Congratulations to the #KavliPrize2022 Laureates in #Astrophysics #Nanoscience #Neuroscience, with breakthroughs in helioseismology; self-assembled monolayers; and genes underlying brain disorders. Learn more about these pioneering scientists at
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JUST ANNOUNCED.#KavliPrize2022 #Neuroscience honors Jean-Louis Mandel, Harry Orr, Christopher Walsh and Huda Zoghbi for pioneering the discovery of genes underlying a range of serious brain disorders and elucidating the pathways by which these genes work.
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Congratulations to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, the 2020 #KavliPrize laureates in #neuroscience, for discovering sensory receptors for temperature and pressure, as well as pain.
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#KavliPrize Laureate Eve Marder changed the field of neuroscience, and how people think about nervous systems.
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In a journey that lasted 16 years, #KavliPrize2022 Laureate Huda Zoghbi went from diagnosing a child with Rett syndrome to finding the mutation that causes this serious brain disorder. #neuroscience #neuro #brain #brainscience #rettsynddrom #raredisease #WomenInSTEM
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Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating #KavliPrize Laureates and their amazing discoveries in #nanoscience #neuroscience and #astrophysics. #IWD2022
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#KavliPrize Laureate Carla Shatz is famous for her work showing that "neurons that fire together, wire together."
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Congratulations to this year's laureates in #nanoscience, for constructing aberration-corrected lenses for electron microscopes, making it possible to see in three dimensions.
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We're celebrating #BrainAwarenessWeek with #KavliPrize laureates in #Neuroscience like Brenda Milner, who's driven by curiosity to understand the workings of the brain and mind. #WomenInSTEM
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Congratulations to the 2020 #KavliPrize Laureates in #astrophysics, #nanoscience, and #neuroscience, whose research has transformed our understanding of the very big, the very small and the very complex.
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The #KavliPrize2022 in #Astrophysics honors Conny Aerts, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Roger Ulrich for their pioneering work in developing the fields of helioseismology and asteroseismology, revolutionizing our understanding of the interiors of stars.
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How would you react to the news you were being honored with #KavliPrize2022? Watch as Conny Aerts, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Roger Ulrich learn they are recipients of the #KavliPrize in #Astrophysics.
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JUST ANNOUNCED.#KavliPrize2022 #Astrophysics honors Conny Aerts, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Roger Ulrich for their pioneering work in developing the fields of helio- and astero-seismology, revolutionizing our understanding of the interiors of stars.
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Congratulations to Andrew Fabian, 2020 #KavliPrize laureate in #astrophysics for his groundbreaking research showing how black holes influence their surrounding galaxies.
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Congratulations to 2024 Kavli Prize Laureate @Nancy_Kanwisher! . She pioneered the establishment of the functional region of interest (fROI) approach to localize the fusiform face area (FFA) in humans using fMRI. #kavliprize2024
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How would you react to the news you were being honored with #KavliPrize2022? Watch as Jean-Louis Mandel, Harry Orr, @ChrisAWalsh1 and Huda Zoghbi learn they are recipients of the #KavliPrize in #Neuroscience.
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Congratulations to A. James Hudspeth, Robert Fettiplace, and Christine Petit, the 2018 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Neuroscience. used complementary approaches to unravel the mechanisms by which the inner ear processes sound, via sensory receptors called hair cells.
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Congratulations to 2024 Kavli Prize Laureate @doristsao! . She combined functional imaging and recording from individual brain cells in macaque monkeys to reveal a six-region system that compiles facial information into a complete picture. #kavliprize2024
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The #KavliPrize2022 in #Neuroscience honors Jean-Louis Mandel, Harry Orr, @ChrisWalsh1 and Huda Zoghbi for pioneering the discovery of genes underlying a range of serious brain disorders and elucidating the pathways by which these genes work.
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Happy 103rd (!) Birthday to #KavliPrize Laureate and neuroscience rockstar Brenda Milner! A pioneer in the field of neuropsychology, she discovered regions of the brain specialized for memory formation. (And we'll never forget that!)
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JUST ANNOUNCED.#KavliPrize2022 #Nanoscience honors David Allara, Ralph Nuzzo, Jacob Sagiv and George Whitesides for their pioneering work in developing self-assembled monolayers on solid substrates – molecular coatings to control surface properties.
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How would you react to the news you were being honored with #KavliPrize2022? Watch as Ralph Nuzzo, Jacob Sagiv and George Whitesides learn they are recipients of the #KavliPrize in #Nanoscience.
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How can we understand the interior of massive stars? #KavliPrize2022 Laureate Conny Aerts explains how gravito-inertial asteroseismology helps model the interior rotation and chemistry of stars. #stars #space #sun #astro #astrophysics #physics #chemistry #WomenInSTEM
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The #KavliPrize2022 in #Nanoscience honors David Allara, Ralph Nuzzo, Jacob Sagiv and George Whitesides for their pioneering work in developing self-assembled monolayers on solid substrates – molecular coatings to control surface properties.
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James Hudspeth was tested for brain damage as a child. This year, he is awarded the #KavliPrize in #neuroscience for his inspiring work on hearing mechanisms. Indeed, his story proves you can have a tough start and still excel in academia. @RockefellerUniv
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Congratulations to A. James Hudspeth, Robert Fettiplace and Christine Petit for their pioneering work on the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing! Today they are awarded the #KavliPrize.
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The wonderful and extraordinary Laureates receiving their applause. Congratulations! #KavliPrize
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Congratulations to 2022 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Neuroscience Huda Zoghbi, Harry Orr, Jean-Louis Mandel, and @ChrisAWalsh1! They just received their medals and scrolls from His Majesty King Harald and @DNVA1 President Lise Øvreås. #KavliPrizeWeek
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CURIOSITY! Curiosity is what drives #KavliPrize Laureate Brenda Milner as she works to uncover the mysteries of the brain.
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What are self-assembled monolayers? #KavliPrize2022 Laureate George Whitesides explains these spontaneous chemical interfaces their wide-ranging applications. #chemistry #materialsscience #science #nanoscience #nano #molecules
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS.Today we begin accepting nominations for the 2022 Kavli Prizes in Astrophysics, Nanoscience & Neuroscience. What breakthrough discoveries will you nominate? #KavliPrizeNominations. ➡️ Anyone can nominate. ➡️ Diversity is encouraged. ➡️
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Interested in learning more about our 2018 #KavliPrize laureates and their honored research? See more at or check out this Q&A from one of them:
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At @WorldSciFest @bgreene greets four of the new #KavliPrize2022 Laureates - Conny Aerts, Ralph Nuzzo, Chris Walsh and Huda Zoghbi. An exciting day to honor these pioneering scientists for their discoveries in #Astrophysics #Nanoscience and #Neuroscience.
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Congratulations to Ewine van Dishoeck, the 2018 #KavliPrize Laureate in #Astrophysics. Her work revealed the processes within interstellar clouds that produce stars and planets. @UniLeiden @_KNAW @RoyalAstroSoc @TheNASciences @theIAS.
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Kavli Prize laureate Brenda Milner today celebrates her 102nd birthday - congratulations to the jubilant who is referred to as "the founder of neuropsychology"!. Read more about her and her work: #KavliPrize #KavliPrize2014
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Congratulations to the 2018 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Astrophysics, #Nanoscience, and #Neuroscience. Learn more about the recognized research and scientists here: @Kunnskapsdep @DNVA1 @KavliFoundation @sciam
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Congratulations to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, and Virginijus Šikšnys, the 2018 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Nanoscience.
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Jennifer Doudna wanted to solve scientific mysteries. She did. And this year, she is one the #KavliPrize Laureates for her dedication to the #CRISPRcas9 technology. @UofCalifornia @jadoudna
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The #KavliPrize Ceremony is about to begin! The 2020 and 2022 laureates will be honored by His Majesty King Harald and presented with their gold medals and scrolls. It’s a celebration of breakthrough discoveries and creative scientists! #KavliPrizeWeek
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The #CRISPRCas9 technology works like a scissor on our genes. Learn more about it from this year's #KavliPrize Laureates. See the full video on our facebook page: #nanoscience
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Congratulations to 2024 Kavli Prize Laureate Armand Paul Alivisatos, President of @UChicago!. He pioneered the use of semiconductor nanocrystals for biological imaging by tailoring them through surface functionalization. #kavliprize2024
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Congratulations! #KavliPrize laureates of 2018, Jennifer Doudna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier are to be honored with this year's @NobelPrize in chemistry for their work on the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9. #NobelPrize #KavliPrize2018
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Congratulations to 2020 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Neuroscience @DJuliusSF and @ardemp! Pictured with His Majesty King Harald and @DNVA1 President Lise Øvreås. #KavliPrizeWeek
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At the #KavliPrize Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, Gry Molvær Hivju and @jimalkhalili were our charismatic co-hosts, guiding us through the fields of #astrophysics, #nanoscience, and #neuroscience. #KavliPrizeWeek
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The 2018 #KavliPrize in #nanoscience honors those who developed a tool to precisely edit DNA. Watch the video to find out more about the honored scientists and their research. @UCBerkeley @VU_LT @HHMINEWS @DoudnaLab @maxplanckpress
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Today is @UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and we are celebrating the brilliant women of the #KavliPrize. Neuroscientists, astrophysicists, nanoscientists - they made breakthrough discoveries that changed the course of their fields. Happy #WomenInScience Day!
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We’re here at @munchmuseet for an exciting day of #KavliPrize Laureate interviews. Science journalists @VivienneParry and @EngineerDG will interview the Kavli Prize Laureates live on stage about their award-winning research. #KavliPrizeWeek
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Driven by curiosity, 2014 Kavli Prize Laureate Brenda Milner discovered regions of the brain specialized for memory formation. On May 27, 2020, the next Kavli Prize laureates will be announced. What amazing discoveries await us? #kavliprize #kavliprize2014 #kavliprize2020
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#KavliPrize2014 Laureate Thomas Ebbesen explores the frontiers of nanoscience. He (accidentally) discovered that light can pass through channels smaller than the light's wavelength! Next #KavliPrize laureates announced May 27. What discoveries await? #kavliprize2020
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HUMAN NATURE is now streaming on @Netflix. This documentary tells the story of #CRISPR gene-editing technology and features #KavliPrize Laureate Jennifer Doudna. #womeninstem #ethicsinscience
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Feeling inspired by the words of #KavliPrize Laureate Eve Marder today. "Peeking into the mysteries of life never gets old." And we will never tire of celebrating brilliant scientists like her!
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Read an excerpt from "Lessons from the Lobster," a new book by @iChas about neuroscientist and Kavli Prize laureate Eva Marder's quest to understand how neurons function.
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Brenda Milner, alongside Marcus Raichle and John O’Keefe, discovered specialized brain networks related to memory and cognition, allowing us to better understand how the mind works. Who will win the 2018 #neuroscience prize on May 31?#KavliCountdown
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It was a pleasure to watch 2022 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Neuroscience @ChrisAWalsh1, Jean-Louis Mandel, Harry Orr and Huda Zoghbi receive their medals and scrolls from His Majesty King Harald V during #KavliPrizeWeek!
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Congratulations to 2022 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Astrophysics Conny Aerts, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, and Roger Ulrich! They just received their medals and scrolls from His Majesty King Harald and @DNVA1 President Lise Øvreås. #KavliPrizeWeek
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2014 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience laureate Brenda Milner was born on this day 100 years ago. Milner was honored for her work on brain networks involved in memory and cognition.
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During #KavliPrizeWeek we hear from laureates about their discoveries. Here, 2022 #KavliPrize Laureate in #Neuroscience Huda Zoghbi shares her story of collaborating with fellow laureate Harry Orr, seated next to her, to find the genetic roots of neurological disorders.
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#Kavli2016 #astrophysics goes to Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne, and Rainer Weiss for #gravitationalwave discovery.
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We've got the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience on our minds. What amazing discovery about the brain will be honored next week? It's a real head-scratcher. #kavliprize2020 #kavliprize #neuro #neuroscience #brain
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Welcome to the Great Hall of Oslo’s City Hall, where the Kavli Prize Laureate Banquet is about to take place. #KavliPrizeWeek
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From the outset of her career, #KavliPrize Laureate Huda Zoghbi wanted to solve the mystery of Rett syndrome. She found the gene, MECP2, that causes Rett syndrome in 2000, more than 15 years after her hunt began.
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#KavliPrize Laureate Eve Marder changed the way people thought about nervous systems. Every single neuron has to constantly rebuild itself to maintain activity. (True of many of us as a whole organism, wouldn't you say?).#WomenInSTEM #neuroscience
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The 2018 #KavliPrize in #Neuroscience honors the research that unlocked the science underlying human hearing. Watch the video to find out more about the recognized scientists and their research. @institutpasteur @RockefellerUniv @UWMadison
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Ardem Patapoutian shares the 2020 #KavliPrize in #Neuroscience for discovering a family of pressure-sensitive ion channels that enable our sense of touch, as well as pressure-sensing by nerve terminals in blood vessels and in the lungs and affect red blood cell volume.
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Mildred Dresselhaus (1930-2017), the 2012 #KavliPrize Laureate in #Nanoscience, is often called "the queen of carbon" for her pioneering work that unlocked the mysteries of carbon materials like graphene and carbon nanotubes. #womeninSTEM
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In just 1 week we'll find out who the next Kavli Prize laureates are in #astrophysics, #nanoscience and #neuroscience. What breakthrough discoveries will be next? .Watch LIVE on May 27 at to find out!.#kavliprize2020 #kavliprize
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Researchers behind gravitational waves breakthrough win prestigious $1M science prize (via @CBCNews) #Kavli2016
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Congratulations to 2016 Kavli Prize #Neuroscience laureates Eve Marder, Michael Merzenich and Carla Shatz!
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Electron optics expert and 2020 #KavliPrize Laureate Ondrej Krivanek discusses how atomic images could lead to energy-sipping computers, eco-friendly power, and sharper images of living cells.
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#KavliPrize2022 announcement day festivities continue with a new episode of Clear+Vivid with laureates Huda Zoghbi and @ChrisAWalsh1!.
It's PODCAST DAY! Two winners of the just-announced @KavliPrize in neuroscience discuss what inspired their breakthrough research. 'Hunting Genes that Damage our Brains'.Available now: #KavliPrize2022 🗣️💙 🥼
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Many thanks to our esteemed hosts of the #KavliPrize ceremony, where for the first time we celebrate two groups of laureates, both 2020 and 2022. Gry Molvær Hivju and @jimalkhalili are guiding us through the worlds of #astrophysics #nanoscience and #neuroscience. #KavliPrizeWeek
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#KavliPrize2022 Laureate Huda Zoghbi's work to find the genetic cause of Rett syndrome took many years, and through long stretches with no results, she persevered for the families she knew were counting on her.
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The Laureates in nanoscience are now awarded the #KavliPrize for their invention #CRISPRCas9; a precise nanotool for editing DNA. Truly, a remarkable breakthrough.
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2020 Kavli Prize Laureate Andrew Fabian shares how important curiosity and collaboration are for science.
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Why is it important to have an open call for nominations? That's how you get the best ideas from across diverse and complex fields. Contribute a nomination for the #KavliPrize in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. #KavliPrizeNominations.➡️
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#KavliPrize Laureate Alan Guth @MIT @ScienceMIT is a pioneer of cosmic inflation -- the theory describing the expansion of the early universe. On June 1, the next Kavli Prize laureates will be announced. What amazing discoveries await us? . #kavliprize2022 #astrophysics
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We now hear from @DJuliusSF and @ardemp, whose research has provided new insights into human physiology and disease.
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#KavliPrize Laureate Huda Zoghbi explains what inspired her to search for the cause of Rett syndrome for more than 15 years. #raredisease
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Sometimes #KavliPrize Laureates meet when they receive the prize; other times they've known each other for years. That is certainly true of the #KavliPrize2022 #Neuroscience laureates. Here we see three of them at the 1996 @CSHL neurodegenerative disease meeting.
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#CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna is a featured speaker at @EUScienceInnov #RiDaysEU. Tune in Wednesday 8am PDT/17:00 CET to hear her speak about how curiosity-driven, blue sky science will help address an uncertain future in a post-COVID-19 world.
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#KavliPrize Laureate and astrochemist Ewine van Dishoeck explains how water can form in the vast emptiness of space.
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Yesterday, James Hudspeth of @RockefellerUniv attended the #KavliPrize announcement at @WorldSciFest without knowing that he would be recognized for his neuroscience of hearing research. Congratulations to Hudspeth and his fellow 2018 laureates!
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Maximilian Haider shares the 2020 #KavliPrize in #Nanoscience for developing aberration-corrected lenses for electron microscopes, making it possible to see the structure and chemical composition of materials in three dimensions.
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2016 #KavliPrize Laureate in #Neuroscience, Carla Shatz has made several paradigm-shifting discoveries about the brain as she explores how the brain develops and learns.
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2018 Kavli Prize Laureate Jennifer Doudna shares her insights about how #COVID19 is changing science.
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Happy New Year! May your 2021 be driven by CURIOSITY, much like 2014 #KavliPrize Laureate Brenda Milner, who discovered regions of the brain specialized for memory formation. #WomenInSTEM
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Mildred Dresselhaus (1930-2017) was awarded the 2012 #KavliPrize in Nanoscience for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron-phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures. She will always be the #QueenOfCarbon. #WomenInSTEM
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"In my life, BC means before Crispr" - Virginijus Šikšnys, 2018 #KavliPrize Laureate in #nanoscience.
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2016 Kavli Prize Laureate Eve Marder discovered how the brain remains stable (even for 100 years!) while allowing for development. On May 27, the next #KavliPrize laureates will be announced. What amazing discoveries await us? #kavliprize2016 #kavliprize2020 #womeninSTEM
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2022 was an exciting year for the #KavliPrize. We announced new laureates in #astrophysics, #nanoscience and #neuroscience and celebrated their breakthrough discoveries!. As we count down to 2023, we'll share highlights from the year and our laureates' work! #KavliPrizeHighlights
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Congratulations to 2022 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Nanoscience Jacob Sagiv, Ralph Nuzzo, David Allara (@PSWnano accepting on his behalf), and George Whitesides! Pictured with His Majesty King Harald and @DNVA1 President Lise Øvreås. #KavliPrizeWeek
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Celebrating #WomenInScienceDay and our #KavliPrize Laureates who have made breakthrough discoveries in their fields and advanced science for us all. #WomenInSTEM #WomenAndGirlsinScience #WomenInScience
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