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In conversation: UC’s 2020 Nobel Prize winners on changing the world through scientific discovery

Celebrate the University of California’s newest Nobel laureates and hear their reflections on the value and impact of scientific discovery in this recorded conversation with UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., and UC Board of Regents Chair John A. Pérez.

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UC Berkeley alum Barry Barish wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

His work on the discovery of gravitational waves helped prove Einstein's general theory of relativity right.

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UCSF links key dementia protein, brain traumas

Prions, long studied by UCSF professor and Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, build up in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and other dementias. Now they're linked to post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans and in the brain damage of athletes who have suffered repeated concussions.
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UC faculty receive Nobel prizes

UCSF, UCLA researchers honored for work in stem cells, stable allocations theory in economics.
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UCTV videos of health innovation talks

View talks from first UC Center for Health Quality and Innovation colloquium.