
Nobel Prize winning work often happens in a young scientist's 20s or 30s — early in their careers. Are the conditions right in Australian universities today for young, hungry minds to do what Nobel laureates Brian Schmidt, Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel did in the 1990s and 1970s at the Australian National University in Canberra? The three join Big Ideas presenter Natasha Mitchell and a huge crowd at the ANU to talk curiosity, discovery, the future of science, and more. This event was organised and hosted by the Australian National University and the Embassy of Switzerland in Australia Speakers Professor Peter Doherty Immunologist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine University of Melbourne Professor Brian Schmidt Astrophysicist and winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics Australian National University Professor Rolf Zinkernagel Immunologist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine University of Zurich, Switzerland With ...
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