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Yale chemist to inaugurate Oliver Smithies Nobel Symposium |
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
During his undergraduate years at Oxford University, Oliver Smithies attended a series of lectures by world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling. “It was tremendously inspiring. People were sitting in the aisles to listen to him,” he said.
Dr. Smithies, the Nobel Laureate and Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will soon begin inspiring a new generation of scientists by using money that came with his prize to fund annual symposia at UNC featuring lectures by other Nobel Laureates. The events are aimed at highlighting the importance of postdoctoral scholars, allowing them to present their research and interact with high caliber scientists. For full release |
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