The cycle consists of four lectures, in each one the last Nobel Prize winner or group will be analysed in Chemistry, Literature, Physics and Physiology or Medicine. In these lectures, in which the University of Valencia (UV) collaborates, experts will explain the merits and value of the work of each distinguished person. The sessions, in January, will be the days 16th, 18th, 25th and the 30th, all at 7 pm, and will take place at the Espai Ciència of the Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània.

Thus, on January 16, Monday, there will be a talk by the Nobel Prize-winning team in Chemistry, formed by Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Karl Barry Sharpless and Morten Peter Meldal, with their study about the development of click chemistry and biorthogonal chemistry. This talk, “Química clic i química bioortogonal: bessones amb Premi Nobel”, will be given by Salah-Eddine Stiriba, a researcher in the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry and the Institute of Molecular Science (IcMol) of the UV.

On January 18, there will be a lecture about the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Annie Ernaux. Valèria Gallard, cultural journalist and literary translator of Annie Ernaux into Catalan will be in charge of the event and it will be presented and moderated by the writer Núria Cadenes.

On January 25, there will be a lecture about the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, distinguished for their experiments with entangled photons, which established the violation of Bell’s inequalities and who are pioneers of the science of quantum information. The lecture will be given by Armando Perez Cañellas, from the Department of Theoretical Physics of the UV and the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), a joint centre of the UV and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

On January 30, it will be the last session of this cycle, addressed to the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Svante Pääbo, who received the prize for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution. The conference will be given by Tomàs Marqués-Bonet, a scientist at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of the Pompeu Fabra University -CSIC.

“Espai Ciència” is an initiative of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and has the collaboration of Acció Cultural del País Valencià, the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit/Chair for the Dissemination of Science of the UV, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT), the CSIC, the Fan Set bookstore and the Mètode magazine.

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