The Nobel laureates ...Get Inspired...and make a difference...
The scientists go to their lab to continue and experiment what they left from yesterday...
They never give up...They research...that is, they try and err...just like the students do, or at least they should do, while studying...

The scientific method of investigation...

In the classroom...it is called trial and error...
In the lab...it is called research...

The scientists

practice ...persist ...persevere...

They never give up...and eventually they triumph...

I hope for a day when one of my students will win the Nobel Prize for medicine or physics...or PEACE...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji Nakamura

2 Japanese and 1 American Share Nobel Prize in Physics for Work on LED Lights

From left, the researchers Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.” CreditRandall Lamb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In its award citation, the Nobel committee declared: "Incandescent light bulbs lit the 20th Century; the 21st Century will be lit by LED lamps."

Commenting on the news, the president of the Institute of Physics, Dr Frances Saunders, emphasised that energy-efficient lamps form an important part of the effort to help slow carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.

"With 20% of the world's electricity used for lighting, it's been calculated that optimal use of LED lighting could reduce this to 4%," she said.

"Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura's research has made this possible. This is physics research that is having a direct impact on the grandest of scales, helping protect our environment, as well as turning up in our everyday electronic gadgets."

LED lamps have the potential to help more than 1.5 billion people around the world who do not have access to electricity grids - because they are efficient enough to run on cheap, local solar power.

The scientists will not give up...

They will come up with new venues and new methods and experiment…

The International Space Station - space lab, is another good place to test theories in practice and come up with new ways of performing the experiments… less gravity…weightlessness… and new approaches…

The microgravity environment on board the International Space Station (ISS) is useful to explore the inner workings of infectious bacteria.

Imagine... and visualize... and postulate... and

theorize... and experiment...and experiment again…and try and err…but never give up…and…and…and…eventually you will be there…

Read below...and get inspired my Mark Ott...

Mark Ott is one the people in charge of crew health at NASA and focuses on keeping microbes at bay. "We're at a constant war with microorganisms because they adapt," he says. "The stressful environment of spaceflight affects them and under stress your immune system also functions less effectively and we have to take precautions for this." Reduced immunity can cause some bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, to cause illness despite normally being carried by many of us with no effect.

"However, not all microorganisms are bad and so the key is to understand how they change and impact us," explains Ott, who also found that the infectious bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, which causes a range of symptoms from boils to food poisoning, may not increase in virulence like Salmonella in microgravity.

Imagine and soar high...Space exploration is a vast new and exciting way to get involved and to make a difference... READ below... and get inspired... and get involved ... and make a difference...

By understanding the changes in Salmonella and other disease-causing bacteria in microgravity, Nickerson hopes to not only keep crew healthy but also help humans down on Earth through the development of drugs and vaccines.

"Infections are becoming harder to treat; we have no vaccine for Salmonella food poisoning and it remains [one of] the leading cause of bacterial food-borne illness worldwide," states Nickerson.

Spaceflight opens up a new world of research that can't take place on Earth and Nickerson has unmasked key changes in the behavior of genes in the bacteria which aren't usually seen under gravity. "Vaccines are about identifying targets and in microgravity the bacteria have unmasked themselves and revealed secrets to help develop therapeutics."

The research is in its early stages but it's just one example of how bacteria are being investigated by space agencies. Far from just a health hazard, bacteria could be used to help sustain astronauts in space, as a source of food and oxygen.

I always had difficulty with students who inspired to be engineers... The problem was not becoming an engineer, but rather becoming ONLY an engineer... I wanted my students to be a whole person and not compartmentalize their intellectual capabilities into truncated segments... I wanted them to become an engineer who appreciated the beauty of the Global Village... I wanted them to engineers and indulge in improving everything around them... I did not want them to be self-centered, egocentric people concerned only for themselves... I wanted them to share their talents with the community...
Building an Eiffel Tower is wonderful... but sharing it with the world is more satisfying and will benefit ALL humanity...
I will not be like Guy de Maupassant and chide the engineers... They are good and ingenious... but I want them to open up and share their talents with the community and the world...

See what is happening to the world famous universally recognized and renowned tower... in the city of enlightenment...

Solar panels and glass floors: it's a €30m refit for the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower: derided by writer Guy de Maupassant … Became one of the better known and recognized symbols of our Global Village which emits hope and signifies human ingenuity…

Get inspired…be an engineer… be a teacher… and imagine a better tomorrow… Be a tower and emanate hope…