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Leading neurobiologist helps celebrate world renowned ‘pain relief’ scientist
One of the University of Aberdeen’s most famous scientists who co-discovered that the brain produces morphine-like chemicals is being recognised tomorrow (Thursday, May 8).
Dr Hans Kosterlitz was in his seventies when together with his colleague John Hughes they won an international race to identify naturally occurring endorphins which affect both how we feel pleasure and help fight pain.
Widespread recognition and many plaudits followed for the scientist who continued leading a unit, which was an international leader in opiate research, until he was approaching his nineties.
Many thought Dr Kosterlitz - who was honoured with a Lasker Award which is awarded annually to people who have made major contributions to medical sciences – would get a Nobel prize.
Indeed when he first joined the University of Aberdeen in 1933 he worked with Professor John R Macleod who later shared the Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin.
Tomorrow the University celebrates his achievements with the very first Hans Kosterlitz Lecture to be delivered by Peter Somogyi, FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, and Director of the Medical Research Council's Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford.
Professor Bill Wisden, Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, has organised the talk. He said: "I am absolutely delighted that Professor Peter Somogyi, who is an extremely eminent scientist, has agreed to give the inaugural Kosterlitz lecture which will be an annual event.
"Kosterlitz was Aberdeen's most famous biologist whose pioneering research paved the way for understanding how the brain generates relief from pain and also feels reward and pleasure."
Long ago, Albert Einstein mentioned, ‘Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, at 180,000 miles per second.’ This theory is called Einstein’s ‘Special Theory of Relativity.’ This theory was approved and established in 1905. With the present technology, scientists have been trying to find something else except light which can travel at the same speed of light or more. However, Italian Physicist Professor Antonio Ereditato found that neutrinos can travel faster than light. This innovation stirred the whole world. Now this scientist has resigned from his post.
Last year in September, Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) completed an experiment and reported that, Neutrinos could travel faster than the speed of light. To be noted, OPERA is a part of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) and carried out its experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy. However, 6 months later of that experiment, another experiment named ICARUS experiment had been done in that same Gran Sasso Laboratory. This experiment mentioned that, neutrinos travel at light speed, but not faster.
As Italian Physicist Antonio Ereditato failed to establish his theory ‘Neutrinos ccan travel faster than the speed of light’ so he felt ashamed. As finding no other option, he found resigning at best way and thus he apologizes to the world for providing wrong information.
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