Just posted this on ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Mcinerney/blog/29011_Goods-thinking_versus_Tree-thinking

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Linus Pauling was one of the most curious of Nobel prize winners.  Along with Marie Curie he is one of only two people to have won Nobel prizes in two different categories - in Pauling’s case, these were Chemistry and Peace.  He is the only person, so far, to have won two unshared Nobel prizes. […]

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Now and again a scientist comes along who was just as interesting away from science as they were as a a scientist.
Marie Curie surely fits this description.
She won her first Nobel prize along with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel in 1903 and this prize was in Physics.  Her second Nobel prize she won on […]

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It’s quite a shame that we don’t know more scientists by name.  However, unlike pop-stars, politicians and even economists, we know very few scientists by name.  The ones we tend to know are the ones that massively changed how we view the world.  Such is the extent of the contribution that must be made by […]

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I have just arrived back from the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2011) in Kyoto, Japan.  This was a fantastic meeting with a huge number of speakers and posters.
Unfortunately, in large part due to the Tsunami in March of this year, the number of attended of the meeting was […]

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