Marching on Together…we’ll win 2 Nobel prizes

Ah, it’s just not quite as catchy a lyric, is it? But I would so love to think that similar scenes of jubilation erupted on streets of #Leeds back in 1915 to celebrate the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to father and son team William & Lawrence Bragg for their invention of X-ray crystallography, & again in 1952 for Nobel in Chemistry to Archer Martin & Richard Synge for their development of partition chromatography – both of which unravelled our understanding of #insulin & #DNA! Thanks to the Clothworkers Company of London for inviting me to talk on this subject last week….and also, well done to #LUFC!!! The crowds and Kaiser Chiefs may well have sung ‘I predict a riot ‘ yesterday, but as for today, I predict an awful lot of sore heads across West Yorkshire…

Jubilant crowds in Leeds city centre celebrate crowning of Leeds United Football Club winning the Championship and promotion (at last!) to the Premier League

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