I have the tag "nobel prize" since before

[oakfarm]

So I got slightly happy that I finally can brag that my work has been visited by a nobel prize winner in chemistry. Emmanuell Charpentier supposedly visited when she was working at the local university and she shared this year's prize with Jennifer Doudna. You likely shouldn’t quote me on this, but I have heard that what Charpentier did when she was at the local university, was to adapt Crispr Cas9 for work at animal cells. So that’s cool. This is a young university, founded 1965 is young, I think this is the first Nobel prize affiliated to this university.

Otherwise I’m a little disappointed. When I worked in the book store me and my colleagues used to watch the announcement of the nobel prize in literature together. One could think that we in a biotech incubator would watch the announcement of the science prizes together. But no, people were at lunch or working.

Then someone said that tomorrow the Nobel prize in literature may go to Kurdish-Syrian poet Salim Barakat. Too many European prose writers lately. Also the writer added that Barakat lives in Stockholm making it climate friendly to deliver the prize. Now maybe the writer wasn’t that serious about that.

Comments

[cactus_rs]

better pick than Bob Dylan 👍

[oakfarm]

I was kind of hoping for Margaret Atwood, just because I have read her.