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Introducing Menorca Chaturvedi, one of the London Naturejobs Career Expo journalism competition runners-up.
Menorca grew up in Calcutta, India, also known as the ‘City of Joy’. She is completing her masters degree in life science informatics at University of Bonn, Germany, and is also involved in EEG data analysis at University Hospital Basel. She loves to read, travel and blog, and has been involved in writing for different newsletters and blogs over the past few years. She also hopes to become a better photographer and tries her hand at editing pictures occasionally. You can follow her on Twitter at @MenorcaC
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Oliver Smithies was proud of the osmometer he built in 1951 whilst studying for his PhD at Oxford University, UK. His ideas and efforts had given way to great results and the subsequent research paper was published in Biochemical Journal in 1953. But aside from the publication, there were no other signs of success. His research was never quoted, nor was his method ever used by anyone else. “So I ask the question: what was the point of it?” Smithies, who became a Nobel laureate Physiology or Medicine in 2007, put this to an audience of young researchers at the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, 2014. “The answer is that I enjoyed doing it, and I learnt to do good science.” Continue reading
