Nobel Prize Dialogue: The Value of Science
In advance of the 2022 Nobel Prize Dialogue in Brazil, we will be hosting an online discussion on 8 April 2021, exploring ‘The Value of Science’.
Join us to watch Nobel Prize laureates May-Britt Moser (medicine 2014) and Serge Haroche (physics 2012) discuss the value of science. They will be joined by Luiz Davidovich, president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and Helena Nader, co-chair of the InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences. This will be followed up by individual discussions with each of the two Nobel Prize laureates in which pre-invited students from throughout Brazil will join the laureates online for a wide-ranging Q&A.
The event is free and open to all. Watch the stream on YouTube.
More about ‘The Value of Science’
The main discussion will focus on what science, and scientists, can contribute to society, and what, in turn, society can contribute to science. Alongside the intellectual enjoyment it provides, the applied benefits of science are, of course, all around us, and our dependence on science to help meet many of the challenges facing humanity is obvious. But knowledge itself is neutral, and what research is pursued, and how we choose to use new discoveries, is up to us to decide guided by the principles of freedom and responsibility that must preside over all scientific endeavour. Beyond this, the discussion will address some of the less immediately tangible, but equally important values that science and scientific thinking can bring to society. In the face of ever-increasing communication of information and ideas, the need to understand what science can teach us has perhaps never been greater.
This session is a prelude to the Nobel Prize Dialogue Brazil 2022, which will bring together Nobel Prize laureates and other thought leaders to discuss ‘The Future We Want’.