Nobel Advice

Are you a Nobel aspirant, young researcher, or want to be part of good science? Here is an advice from Prof. Avram Hershko ( Winner of 2004 Nobel Prize -for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation)

Here is a lesson from his life in science that he presented at the Lindau Nobel Meeting 2013."

• It is very important to have good mentors- you cant learn how to do good science just from reading the literature.
• Find an important subject that is not yet interesting to others the big guys will get there before you! Do not go with the mainstream. 
• Accidental observations may be the most important ones. Grab your Luck. 
• Use whatever experimental approach is needed for your objective. It may not necessarily be the most fashionable (“state-of-the-art”) technology. Of course, biochemistry will always be needed. 
• Science should be a curious driven adventure. You should have a lot of excitement and fun. 
• Never leave bench work, and shall continue to get a lot of excitement and fun.

Inspired by Nobel

It is a great honor, not to mention my good fortune as well, to be nominated and sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, India, as one of the 23 young researchers who will be attending the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting as part of the Indian delegation.

With much anticipation, I await to listen to the eminent speakers at the Lindau stellar, who need no elaborate introduction. The work of most of the scholars have formed a basis for my own work as well as for thousands of other scientists and students around the world. We ceaselessly draw inspiration from their work. I have long admired these scholars, but to listen to them in person would be an awe-inspiring experience, which I am sure would vouch for it.

“It is the quest for knowledge that drives the scientific community.” Armed with this belief, I look forward to meet and interact with personalities of scientific excellence at close quarters. The informal setting at the Lindau Meeting, I hope, will allow us to discuss our work in a relaxed manner. I believe this meeting will be a great platform to learn directly from the masters and to meet peers from across the globe.

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