A day of scientific dissemination organized at the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche presents the discoveries and scientific personalities awarded with the Nobel prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine in the 2021 edition. The meeting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, 1 December, at 11:00 a.m. It will be the second edition of ‘Divulganobel’, in which three researchers will explain the scientific and social impact of the works that have deserved the prizes of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The act, which It will be broadcast live on the UMH YouTube channel, is organized by the Bioengineering Institute of the UMH.
The UMH professors María Rosa Ponce, Ángela Sastre and María del Mar Sánchez, researchers from said institute, are responsible for organizing this activity. The day will be inaugurated by the Vice-Rector for Research of the UMH Domingo Orozco and the professors Juana Gallar, Carmen Nájera and Belén Rodríguez de Fonseca, whose research activities are closely related to the themes of the three Nobel Prizes this year will take part.
UMH Professor of Physiology Juana Gallar will explain the significance of the Nobel Prize in Physiology to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for the discovery of temperature and touch receptors. She has focused her entire research career on the study of ocular sensory receptors and their role in the genesis of the sensations that arise from the eye and that are relevant in many pathological situations such as dry eye, pain associated with the use of glasses. contact, diabetes, herpes, eye inflammation, and postsurgical neuropathic pain.
The professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Alicante Carmen Nájera will explain the significance of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Benjamin List and David MacMillan for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. Nájera investigates synthetic organic chemistry and, in recent years, the design of organic catalysts that can be recovered and recycled. She is one of the most cited scientists in her field and has been awarded numerous national and international awards.
The professor of Geophysics and Meteorology at the Complutense University of Madrid Belén Rodríguez de Fonseca will explain the significance of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi. It will explain his contributions to the theory of disordered materials and random processes, a work that lays the foundations of our knowledge about how humanity influences the Earth’s climate. Rodríguez de Fonseca is a professor in the Department of Geophysics and Meteorology at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has focused his research activity on the study of tropical and extratropical climate variability, statistical climatology and numerical modeling.
The event has the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology-Ministry of Science and Innovation. Also, with the support of the Spanish Society of Genetics, the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry and the Royal Spanish Society of Physics, since the organizers are or have been members of their respective boards of directors.
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The UMH organizes a meeting open to the public on the 2021 Nobel prizes