Nobel Prize Discussion Panel

Presenter Information

Martha Ndung'u, University of the Pacific
Cynthia Dobbs, University of the Pacific
Guillermo Barro Calvo, University of the Pacific
Nejat Duzgunes, University of the Pacific
Isaac Witte, Harvard University

Document Type

Panel

Start Date

3-11-2020 4:00 PM

End Date

3-11-2020 5:00 PM

Description

This week's panel discussed the ground-breaking research conducted by this year's Nobel Prize recipients. Guests shared their insights on current research and highlighted their interactions with the prize winners.

Peace Prize (panelist Martha Ndung'u, PharmD): Awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for “its efforts to combat hunger, …and to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict” (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2020/press-release/).

Literature (panelist Cynthia Dobbs, PhD): Awarded to Louise Glück for “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal” (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/press-release/).

Physics (panelist Guillermo Barro Calvo, PhD): Awarded one-half to Roger Penrose for discoveries related to black hole formation and one-half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/).

Physiology or Medicine (panelist Nejat Duzgunes, PhD): Awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2020/press-release/).

Chemistry (panelist Isaac Witte, PhD student [Harvard]): Awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing [i.e. CRISPR/Cas9] (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/).