3rd Time listening to Nobel Laureate Lecture

This morning I went to listen to a talk by Nobel Laureate Professor Douglas D. Osheroff. He is the winner in Physics for year 1996. Although I'm a biology student and have really little (or nothing) to do with Physics in my research, I was eager to go. Why? Because it's not like you get this kind of opportunity everyday (and I would give away many things if I could ever work in one of those labs of these great scientists). And I'm lucky enough to have attended all 3 of Nobel laureate series talks in UNIMAS, first in 2004 by Prof Dr Lee Yuan Tseh, second in 2008 by Prof Dr Gerardus't Hooft and this year, again!! ^_^

To be honest, I didn't really understand Prof Douglas talk most of the time especially when he talked about Physics concepts like Feynman's diagram etc. However, it was enjoyable to listen to him telling the story of Physicist Prof Richard Feynman's life (The title of his talk : Richard Feyman's Life and His Broad Impact on Science). Prof Douglas is a pretty good storyteller I would say. I'm even much fascinated by his personality- knowledgeable yet humorous and easy to approach. He's very 'American' I would say. And again, I would say I could feel the 'passion' and the radiance he generates (like you could see glow in the dark kind of feeling) when he talks about physics. (Hmm...I wonder if I ever blink a little when I talk about my own work? Haha)

Be passionate with what you are doing, but most importantly do what you are passionate about. This is what I strongly feel after third time listening to Nobel laureate series talk. None of these great scientists really 'aim' for any big prize in their life. They do science out of their curiosity and pure love for it. They ask questions and try to find answers to their questions, and then without realising, they won themselves the highest honour that any scientists would ever dream of. I salute these scientists!