The History, Uses, and Future of the Nobel Prize, 1:00pm – 6:00pm, Thursday, October 4, 2018, Harvard Medical School
Reporter in Real Time: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

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Center for the History of Medicine
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
invites you to register for
The History, Uses, and Future of the Nobel Prize
1:00pm – 6:00pm, Thursday, October 4, 2018
A half-day symposium bringing together an international group of historians and Nobel laureates to consider the history of the Nobel Prize and its enduring social, political, and scientific roles
PROGRAM
Panel I: Scientific Credit and the History of the Nobel Prize
Chair: Allan Brandt (Harvard Medical School and Harvard University) /
Jacalyn M. Duffin (Queen’s University): Commemorating Excellence: the Nobel Prize and the Historical Sociology of Science /
Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, and
Heiner Fangerau (Heinrich Heine-University): The First US-American Nobel Prize Nominees in Medicine (and why they failed) /
Jeffrey Flier (Harvard Medical School): The Past, Present, and Future of Scientific Credit in Biomedicine
Panel II: The Nobel – and Ig Nobel – Prize in Practice
Chair: David S. Jones (Harvard Medical School and Harvard University) /
David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): But Does it Scale? Awarding Nobel Prizes in Physics amid Exponential Growth /
Marc Abrahams (Annals of Improbable Research/Ig Nobel Prizes): Ig Nobel: Research that Makes You Laugh, then Makes You Think
Panel III: The Uses and Future of the Nobel Prize
Chair: Scott H. Podolsky (Harvard Medical School) /
Eric Chivian, Ira Helfand,
Bernard Lown,
James Muller, and
John Pastore (leadership of IPPNW, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1985): Decreasing the Nuclear Threat to Humanity – Nobel Peace Prizes to IPPNW in 1985 and ICAN in 2017 /
Torsten Wiesel (recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981): Nobel – Excellence Forever /
Jack Szostak (recipient, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009): Opportunities and Responsibilities that Come with Winning the Nobel Prize
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