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John Hopfield Ph.D. ’58 Wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
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John Hopfield Ph.D. ’58 was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. He becomes the 51st Nobel laureate affiliated with Cornell.
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Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Shows Women’s Stories Matter Too
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While deeply rooted in a specific French context, Ernaux’s work also touches on many universal themes — from class and upward mobility to family and first love.
Science
Nobel Prize Winning Technology Demonstrates Merits of Interdisciplinary Collaboration, says Cornell Prof
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Why are the most fundamental structural parts of the human body referred to as cells? Robert Hooke, the man who coined the term, thought they looked like cells in a monastery. But without a picture, this analogy would never have been possible. Microscopes, the fundamental instruments that make these pictures possible have gone a long way from 1665, when Hooke made his discoveries. Hooke looked at dead cells while today, we freeze biochemicals to view metabolic processes as they happen.