Where:
Gordon Hall, Waterhouse Room, Harvard Medical School
25 Shattuck ST
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, University
Event website:
https://libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/4583053
Join us for a half-day, international symposium on the impact of the Nobel prize.
Panel I: Scientific Credit and the History of the Nobel Prize
Chair: Allan Brandt (Harvard Medical School and Harvard University) / Jacalyn M. Duffin (Queen’s University): Commemorating Excellence: the Nobel Prize and the Historical Sociology of Science / Nils Hansson, Heiner Fangerau (Heinrich Heine-University): The First US-American Nobel Prize Nominees in Medicine (and why they failed) / Jeffrey Flier (Harvard Medical School): The Past, Present, and Future of Scientific Credit in Biomedicine
Panel II: The Nobel – and Ig Nobel – Prize in Practice
Chair: David S. Jones (Harvard Medical School and Harvard University) / David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): But Does it Scale? Awarding Nobel Prizes in Physics amid Exponential Growth / Marc Abrahams (Annals of Improbable Research/Ig Nobel Prizes): Ig Nobel: Research that Makes You Laugh, then Makes You Think
Panel III: The Uses and Future of the Nobel Prize
Chair: Scott H. Podolsky (Harvard Medical School) / Eric Chivian, Michael Christ, Ira Helfand, Bernard Lown, James Muller, and John Pastore (leadership of IPPNW, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1985): Decreasing the Nuclear Threat to Humanity - Nobel Peace Prizes to IPPNW in 1985 and ICAN in 2017 / Torsten Wiesel (recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981): Nobel – Excellence Forever / Jack Szostak (recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009): Opportunities and Responsibilities that Come with Winning the Nobel Prize