10-07-2020, 05:47 PM
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More about this year’s Nobel Prize winners with Big Island connections:
Doudna, 56, is a Hilo High graduate whose family moved to Hawaii island when she was 7. According to a 2015 New York Times profile, Doudna’s father taught literature at the University of Hawaii-Hilo and her mother lectured on history at a community college. The Times reported that Doudna found her calling in high school after hearing a lecture by a scientist about her research into how normal cells became cancerous. She later went on to study at Pomona College in California and Harvard University.
And speaking of facilities here on Big Island that lead to world class, Nobel prize winning research:
Today was the second day in a row that a woman with ties to Hawaii island won a Nobel Prize. On Tuesday, astronomer Andrea Ghez, of the University of California, Los Angeles, shared in the Nobel Prize for physics for work studying a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. Ghez has been using the the W.M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea since 1995 for her research.
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Doudna, 56, is a Hilo High graduate whose family moved to Hawaii island when she was 7. According to a 2015 New York Times profile, Doudna’s father taught literature at the University of Hawaii-Hilo and her mother lectured on history at a community college. The Times reported that Doudna found her calling in high school after hearing a lecture by a scientist about her research into how normal cells became cancerous. She later went on to study at Pomona College in California and Harvard University.
And speaking of facilities here on Big Island that lead to world class, Nobel prize winning research:
Today was the second day in a row that a woman with ties to Hawaii island won a Nobel Prize. On Tuesday, astronomer Andrea Ghez, of the University of California, Los Angeles, shared in the Nobel Prize for physics for work studying a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. Ghez has been using the the W.M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea since 1995 for her research.
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