More than just a scientist
What would life be like if you were a rocker, a soccer player, a teacher at Stanford University, and a Nobel Prize winner? Carolyn Bertozzi from the US lives such a cool life!
Bertozzi shares this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry with Barry Sharpless (US) and Morten Meldal (Denmark). She became this year's only woman winner in science and the eighth woman to win the chemistry prize in history.
Bertozzi won the prize for studying the sugar coats of cells(细胞). She has found a smart way to connect(连接) cells by connecting their sugar coats. The cells then have a green color so that scientists can see clearly where they are and how they move. The University of California, Berkeley said that her finding could help to develop new treatments for cancer(癌症).
▲ . She was a keyboarder(键盘手) in a rock band. She even thought about majoring in music. She also played soccer, and won an athletic scholarship(体育奖学金) from Harvard.
As a woman scientist, Bertozzi tries to promote gender equality(性别平等). "In the late 1980s, maybe 10% of the students were women," she told news magazine Chemical & Engineering News. "There were maybe one or two women in a lab(实验室), so we tried to support each other by starting a monthly get-together for all the women students in the department."