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What are you most proud of?

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Alan Shepard Naval aviator and astronaut; the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon
If it’s one thing, obviously it had to have been being selected to make the first manned space flight for the United States. That was competition at its best, not because of the fame or the recognition that went with it, but because of the fact that America’s best test pilots went through this selection process, down to seven guys, and of those seven, I was the first one to go. That always will be the most satisfying thing for me.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Houston, Texas, 1 February 1991 source ↗
Martinus Veltman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the quantum structure of electroweak interactions
It will continue and it is due to something which I am very proud to say I invented. ... In 1975 I was asked to become a member of CERN’s scientific policy committee, that committee advises the council of CERN as to what they should do in the future concerning physics. ... we cannot go all the times through the traumatising experience of fighting for a new accelerator, making it and then fall back and so on, so I came to the concept of a constant budget.
Recorded Per Carlson and Jasmina Cirgic, Nobelprize.org interview, The Nobel Prize, December 1999 source ↗
Harold Kroto Chemist; Nobel laureate in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes
And then in 1974 I started to work on phosphorous chemistry which is the area of which I’m most proud as it turns out. I’m most proud of my work on carbon phosphorous chemistry.
Recorded Astrid Gräslund, Meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany, The Nobel Prize, June 2000 source ↗
Bert Sakmann Cell physiologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine for the patch clamp technique
This was an unexpected benefit let’s say. There is a new class of diseases that came up in the last, yes I would say 10 years, they are called channelopathies. This means diseases related to defects in the function of ion channels and all of a sudden ion channels and electrical signals, which we’re not very popular for the general public because it’s somewhat difficult to understand how electrical signal comes about and that we all run on electrical signals but this development of finding channelopathies is quite, you know, rewarding I would say
Recorded Marika Griehsel, 53rd meeting of Nobel Laureates, Lindau, Germany, The Nobel Prize, July 2003 source ↗
Aziz Sancar Biochemist; Nobel laureate in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
I am of course honoured to get this recognition for all the work I’ve done over the years, but I’m also proud for my family and for my native country and my adopted country, and especially for Turkey it’s quite important.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Nobel Prize, 7 October 2015 source ↗
Frances Arnold Chemical engineer; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2018
I’m proud any time that I see a toxic chemical process, something that produces toxic waste or requires precious metals, which have to be mined at terrible environmental degradation costs — I’m proud when I see that replaced with a clean, efficient biological process that doesn’t produce those things. And we have to do that a million times over in order to move away from our addiction to this old-fashioned chemistry that we do.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Pasadena, California, 18 January 2019 source ↗
Yury Gogotsi Materials scientist at Drexel University; co-discoverer of MXenes
Yes, I am proud of them all. Our main product at DNI is people who we teach and train to do research.
Recorded John Plummer, Written Q&A published in the journal, Communications Materials, 9 October 2024 source ↗

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