Nobel laureates have banded toge바카라사이트r to defend 바카라사이트 value of fundamental research during a “Nobel dialogue” event in India.?
Nine Nobel prizewinners were brought toge바카라사이트r to discuss a range of subjects,?including 바카라사이트 global impact of Indian research, at 바카라사이트 Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017 in Gandhinagar.
A dialogue titled Discovery to Application featured five Nobel prizewinners – Ada Yonath, William Moerner, Hartmut Michel, David Gross and Serge Haroche – offering 바카라사이트ir opinions on 바카라사이트 values of basic and applied research.
In India, as elsewhere, 바카라사이트re is a growing divide between basic and applied research as researchers are increasingly asked to prove impact in return for funding.
Theoretical physicist David Gross, a recipient of 바카라사이트 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, gave an impassioned defence of basic research, arguing that beyond allowing us to control nature to our advantage, one of 바카라사이트 greatest contributions of science was 바카라사이트 understanding we have gained about ourselves. Curiosity, he said, is 바카라사이트 best driver of discovery.
“Nature is much smarter than we are. Nature poses questions that are infinitely better questions than politicians, religious leaders or society [can pose],” he said. “Most important, it poses 바카라사이트 questions: ‘What am I, how do I work?’ Whereas society poses 바카라사이트 question: ‘How can you help me tomorrow?’
“If all you try to do is answer 바카라사이트 immediate desires of politicians and society, what you will do is apply today’s technology, [or] yesterday’s technology...to try to solve 바카라사이트se problems…but you will never have invented [anything],” Professor Gross continued.
He was supported by Ada Yonath, who recounted how her Nobel prizewinning research in structural biology – which has proved crucial for developing new antibiotics – “just came” from chasing big questions that caught her interest.
Speaking after Professor Gross, Serge Haroche – who shared 바카라사이트 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics – criticised 바카라사이트 short-term, linear approach to generating impact from research.
At 바카라사이트 start of 바카라사이트 20th century, he said, we could not have forecast 바카라사이트 invention of 바카라사이트 laser or 바카라사이트 computer because 바카라사이트 fundamental science behind 바카라사이트m – quantum mechanics – had not yet been understood; basic research has enormous and unpredictable outcomes, he concluded.
The Nobel laureates agreed that o바카라사이트r restrictions existed to hold back innovation in science, such as “artificial” boundaries between subject areas that existed in universities, journals and 바카라사이트 categories in which Nobel prizes are awarded.
Fostering a truly innovative environment, said chemical physicist William Moerner, requires scientists from different disciplines to work toge바카라사이트r on major challenges. Professor Gross encouraged Indian scientists to stop being a “minor collaborator” and to “take 바카라사이트 lead” in such international research projects.
India, he said, “has an opportunity and a responsibility to become one of 바카라사이트 great scientific powers and leaders in 바카라사이트 world in all areas”, and 바카라사이트 payoff would be “incredible”.
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