Dwayne’s Study Zombies

Hey, GED studiers! Anyone out there who wants to be a scientist? I think it’d be totally kewl… like, I could be like Dr. Jeckyl, all in my secret chemistry lab, with mysterious equipment, putting together a secret formula…. Well, I guess real science isn’t quite like that, but still. Like, you could work on a space ship. Or in a laboratory, with microscopes and exploding chemicals and stuff. Or on secret work for the government! And maybe you’d win a Nobel prize!

The Nobel prize winners are out there… and here’s some of the stuff that’s winning…

The Nobel prize for medicine is split up between Harald zur Hausen, a scientist who discovered that a virus called HPV causes a kind of cervical cancer in women. That means that now, years later, there’s a vaccine that can help keep women from getting cervical cancer… totally weird! And the other winners are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, two scientists who discovered the HIV virus that causes AIDS. So, the medicine prize is all about viruses!

The Nobel prize for physics is also split… dudes! There’s just too many great science guys out there, I guess. Yoichiro Nambu, a scientist at the University of Chicago, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, two scientists in Japan, study really tiny particles that make up matter. They try to figure out why the universe isn’t symmetrical… like, the same on both sides. Like, trippy, dudes.

Nobel prize for chemistry is getting announced tomorrow… but I don’t think I’m gonna win. Hey, someday I could win a Nobel prize, I guess! How about you?

Start with that GED, and who knows?

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm and is filed under Biology, GED Science, Physics.
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