Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

This is one of those things that when astronomers first saw them they went "oh fuck we've found extraterrestrial life".

Some examples:

Jointly awarded to Bragg Junior and Senior. Junior was only 25 at the time, the youngest ever STEM nobel prize laureate as of 2024, and given that science is getting harder nad harder, this is not likely to change ever.

Part of what they did was to determine the structure of a bunch of rocks. These must have been every exciting times, to be able for the first time to have direct evidence of the molecular composition of materials.

As described at Section "Radio astronomy", this new type of telescope led to the exciting discovery of new types of astronomical objects, notably pulsars and quasars.

Ciro Santilli defines a "model protein" as a protein which has been significantly used in the history of protein science, in analogy to the term model organism.

Key characteristics of model proteins include:

Important model proteins include:

Radio astronomy is cool because it revealed:The 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for pioneering radio astronomy from the late 40s onwards done at the University of Cambridge which was an epicenter of early research in that area, leading to the creation of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in 1958.