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Round Table Future Of European Competitiveness - Paris

German Director of Max Planck speech at a round table discussion on the The future of European competitiveness at the College de France in Paris, on November 13, 2024. Photo by Jeanne Accorsini/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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7 scientists awarded Shaw Prize in Hong Kong

STORY: 7 scientists awarded Shaw Prize in Hong Kong SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 12, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE (English): JOHN LEE, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) STORYLINE: Seven scientists were awarded the Shaw Prize Award in Hong Kong on Sunday for their prominent work in the prize's three categories. The Astronomy prize was awarded in equal shares to Matthew Bailes from the Australian Research Council, Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin from West Virginia University in the United States, for the discovery of fast radio bursts. The three laureates described the first fast radio burst found by human beings in a research paper written in 2007. The Life Science and Medicine prize went to Patrick Cramer from the Max Planck Society in Germany, and Eva Nogales from the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States, for pioneering structural biolo

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the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic, pictured on November 16, 2018) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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laboratory weight

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic, pictured on November 16, 2018) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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kilogram standard, platinum and iridium alloy cylinder

The platinum and iridium alloy cylinder (pictured on November 16, 2018 at the Czech Metrology Institute in Brno, Czech Republic) will no longer be a kilogram standard. Representatives of individual countries at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) conference, as expected, have decided to redefine the kilogram and other basic units. The base unit of mass is newly derived from the fixed value of the Planck constant. (CTK Photo/Igor Zehl)

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2020 Nobel chemistry prize winner

File photo in April 2017 shows Emmanuelle Charpentier giving an interview in Tokyo. The director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Jennifer Doudna for discovering a revolutionary genome editing technique.

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French, U.S. scientists awarded this year's Japan Prize

French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and U.S. scientist Jennifer Doudna pose for photos in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2017, after the Japan Prize Foundation announced they have been awarded this year's Japan Prize. Charpentier, director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, and Doudna, professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, were awarded the prize for creating a revolutionary tool for editing DNA. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo