Gaztelueta: alumnos de 2 Bach con el premio Nobel de Química 2013, Martin Karplus, y la profesora de Oxford Dame Jozelyn Bell
The Bizkaia Aretoa in Bilbao filled with Baccalaureate students on the occasion of the Passion for Knowledge 2016 meeting. Chaired by Pedro Miguel Etxenike, Martin Karplus, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, all kinds of subjects were tackled, ranging from the importance of creativity and imagination in science to the relationship between science and technology, and touching on religious issues as well. Gaztelueta was represented by Iñigo Ingunza, Iñigo Hernández, Iñigo Regueira, Santi Real de Asúa and Ibón Suárez (photo: left to right with Dr Karplus & Dra Bell)
Claude COHEN-TANNOUDJI (École Normale Supérieure (ENS), France and Nobel Laureate in Physics 1997)
Martin KARPLUS (Harvard University, USA; Université de Strasburg, France and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2013)
Martin Karplus was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1930. He received his BA from Harvard College in 1950 and his PhD from Caltech in 1953. He worked at Oxford University as an NSF postdoctoral fellow from 1953 until 1955, when he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois. In 1960 Karplus became professor at Columbia University, and in 1966 at Harvard University, where he was named Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry in 1979. He is also Professeur Conventionné at the Université Louis Pasteur. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a foreign member of the Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society of London. He is a Commander in the French Legion of Honor. He has been received honorary degrees from several universities, as well as numerous awards for his many contributions to science, including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Dame Jocelyn BELL BURNELL (Astrophysics. Oxford University, UK)
A British astrophysicist, she graduated from the University of Glasgow with a BSc degree in Natural Philosophy (Physics) in 1965, and obtained her PhD from University of Cambridge in 1969. As a postgraduate student at Cambridge, she discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish, for which Hewish shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. After finishing her PhD, Bell Burnell worked at many wavelengths and in many roles in universities and institutions in Britain while raising a family, and was also a visiting professor at Princeton University in the United States. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Mansfield College Oxford, a pro- Chancellor at Trinity College Dublin and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy. She has also served as President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002- 2004, and as President of the Institute of Physics (2008-2011).
Passion for Knowledge 2016
